talking bios?

[Alex Snow]

though a motherboard running this linux bios with speakup in it would 
be pretty cool. especially if you could recompile the bios stuff with 
only the stuff you want so you could customise.
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 
12:47:14PM -0500, Garrett Klein wrote:
> Hey Igor,
> 
> A friend of mine was looking into getting a motherboard last year that had a
> sort of bios screen reader built into it. Unfortunately, the URL that I have
> doesn't work anymore, I can give you the model for it though. It's called
> the 845GE Chipset Pentium 4 Mother BoardBRP4GE-V. YOu could probably find
> something on this via google... HTH.
> 
> Garrett
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <igueths at comcast.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 2:08 AM
> Subject: talking bios?
> 
> 
> Hi all. I saw an article on Slashdot about a week or 2 ago about the
> Linuxbios project, which can be found at linuxbios.org. This poses some
> interesting ideas for the future...Theoretically, wouldn't it be possible
> to integrate Speakup into the kernel that is used on the Rom chip? Also, I
> think its a good idea to write to all the major motherboard manufacturers
> about the Linuxbios project. And also explain how including a talking bios
> in future motherboards would benifit the blind/visually impaired community.
> And also explain how current bioses are inaccessible to visually impaired
> people. What iare everyone's thoughts on this?
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