Hi Kitty and Janina, Many thanks for the tips. I really appreciate it cause it's going to benefit a large Speakup/ Linux fan crowd up here. Best regards Janitha Rukmal On 10/5/2010 5:42 PM, Kitty Litter wrote: > I am hardly a grub 2 expert but you need to edit > /etc/default/grub and uncomment the line grub_init_tune and modify the > tempo, frequency and duration to get the desired beep. Then you must > run update-grub as root to incorporate these changes into > /boot/grub/grub.cfg. You aren't supposed to edit this file directly. > If you try putting a ctrl-g in the title of a menu in > /etc/grub.d/10_linux you will get a beep when you press enter on an > item but not when you arrow passed it, at least that was the behavior > when I tried it 6 months ago. After you run update-grub you can look > at /boot/grub/grub.cfg to see what order the menu items will be in. > The menu items don't appear to wrap so if you want the last item you > could arrow down a bunch of times and press enter. Remember you must > run update-grub to incorporate these changes into grub.cfg. Also, info > grub for grub docs. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup