Re: Make syslinux beep?
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?
Don't some older computers beep anyway as you turn them on? So, if this
helps the blind, is one beep really too much to ask?
I know like 99% of people using debian installers aren't blind, but one
bheep won't really be too bad will it?
>
> Especially as there's not that much magic involved in booting from CD:
> just waiting for some time and hitting enter should also work. There is
How long? Are we playing the guessing game? Not nice if you have to do
20 installs or something.
And, its hard to tell on some machines eg. laptops and other computers,
since you try to listen when the disk spins down and this is hard to
tell...
But, the beep would solve this. I know it wouldn't help on a laptop, but
still.
> no real difference between "there was no beep" and "I hit enter but
> nothing happened". In both cases a disabled person is going to need help
Well, you would know that the boot prompt had appeared, and you could
type your boot command to either start braille or speech. So, it would
help, and... have you ever booted an installer with out seeing it? Its
not really that easy...
But I believe the beep could help a lot and its not too much to ask.
> from others to figure out the cause.
not always
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