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



On Sun, 2015-08-23 at 00:44 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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.

Ah!  Then you need the ovmf package.

> > 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.

How odd.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?

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