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Bug#796591: debian-installer: beep on x86 UEFI for accessibility



Ben Hutchings, le Sun 23 Aug 2015 00:39:20 +0200, a écrit :
> On Sat, 2015-08-22 at 22:30 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > As raised during the accessibility talk, we need to emit a beep at boot
> > menu in the UEFI case too (grub menu).
> > 
> > I don't really know how to test this (can qemu emulate it?), so for
> > now I'm just attaching a patch which should be working, but which is
> > not tested.  Also, we probably need to make it conditionalized under
> > official uploads like was done for the syslinux prompt.
> 
> Sound works in the SDL interface or over SPICE (-spice option).

I know, but the question is about emulating *UEFI* on qemu.

> If you're invoking QEMU directly, the option '-soundhw pcspk,hda' seems
> like it should do the right thing, but I don't hear a beep even when
> booting in BIOS mode.

The non-UEFI BIOS used by QEMU doesn't support beeps.

Samuel


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