On Do, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:22:52 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: >On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 07:15:38AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >> 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. > >Erm, why? One beep at the boot prompt of the installer? Not even every >time your system boots, just every time you do an installation. How is >that annoying? I also can not understand why this could be annoying. For example a beep is generated everytime gdm gets started during the bootup of a machine. I do not know anyone who would complain of that beep allthough it happens more ofthen then a beep during installation.... Cheers, Christian -- Christian Schoepplein <chris at schoeppi.net>
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