Re: Make syslinux beep?
Frans Pop, le Thu 17 Jul 2008 07:15:38 +0200, a écrit :
> On Thursday 17 July 2008, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Samuel Thibault, le Thu 19 Jun 2008 11:08:32 +0100, a écrit :
> > > It is a bit hard for blind people to know exactly when they can type
> > > boot options for the installer. It would be helpful that syslinux
> > > beeps when it is ready to get input. What do people think about it?
> >
> > So would people consider it a problem that debian installation CDs make
> > a beep at syslinux stage by default? It's just a matter of adding a ^G
> > in the menu title for instance.
>
> IIRC correctly it has been discussed before and was rejected as to
> annoying for the normal case. I must say I agree with that.
I do agree it is annoying, but as Sebastien said, it's just about
installation. I've asked a few people, they said they wouldn't complain
if it could help others.
> Especially as there's not that much magic involved in booting from CD:
> just waiting for some time and hitting enter should also work.
How much time? The BIOS may sometimes take quite long to boot...
What blind people currently do is waiting for hearing the CD spinning
down, but that's not always feasible, e.g. on a laptop, and they end
up booting, waiting for a few minutes, and then hope that it's at the
syslinux prompt, then type the magic stuff (with qwerty keymap without
help from the screen), type enter, wait for the kernel/udev/etc. to
boot, and eventually maybe see brltty or hear speakup starting. On
nowadays silent laptops, that's the only point when they eventually get
feedback at last. For a sysadmin that's not really convenient.
Samuel
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