Talking bios

[Gregory Nowak]

Can you clarify that? If you're thinking that the BIOS should be accessible through a sound card, then consider the following.

1. There are different companies today making different sound cards. How would the BIOS code know how to interface with a sound card in your system given this, assuming that the system in question had a sound card installed?

2. Consider how much ROM space a screen reader, a TTS engine, and all possible sound card drivers would take.

As for myself, I think that a serial accessible BIOS via terminal software is perfectly reasonable, and would welcome such a feature on the x86 architecture, especially given the fact that it would be better then what we have now, which is nothing.

Greg



> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Allan Shaw <technews at sympatico.ca
>To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca
>Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:01:30 -0500
>Subject: Re: Talking bios


>... I wouldn't consider having to connect a Braille 'N Speak to your system
>a system with a perfectly accessible bios, in fact the exact opposit!