Just to let you know, both grub and lilo will put stuff out the serial port, so if you have a hardware synth, you are in. on Saturday 05/17/2008 Gaijin(gaijin at clearwire.net) wrote > Hello all, > > Well, I've written William Pitcock, who appears in the > copyright notice to be lilo's maintainer at present, and asked to > discuss the possibility of modifying lilo to include audible signals for > the visually impared. Hopefully, something may come of it in future > lilo releases. I don't use grub, and don't even have the maintainer's > address, so I'll leave it up to you grub users. I've mentioned > increasing the frequency of beeps as you cursor down the menu, having a > unique beep for item #1, to the possibility of using morse code to read > out menu items to help the visually impared with the bootloader menus, > and am still waiting for a reply. I doubt it would be all that hard to > include an audible indicator feature in the boot menus that can be > toggled on in the .conf files. We may not get it to spell things out in > morse code, but maybe we won't have to hack and recompile something in > on later releases if they show an interest. > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici at ccs.covici.com