changing bios settings, without eyes, how?

[Alex Snow]

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speaking of video cards why do all video cards (or at least all the 
ones I have here) have a 25-pin connecter on the card like where you'd 
plug in a dongle or something?
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:12:07AM -0600, 
Glenn Ervin at Home wrote:
> Maybe it's a matter of having a speech device that plugs into an existing
> video card in either an AGP port, or PCI or EISA.
> Some video cards come with places to plug in more memory, but I don't know
> if this kind of access would work for such a speech chip.
> Glenn.
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> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:43 AM
> Subject: Re: changing bios settings, without eyes, how?
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> I had thought about creating one of those. that'd be really cool to
> have.
> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:43:53PM -0500, Ryan Mann wrote:
> > Has anybody thought of creating a device that would hook up to a
> > computer's monitor port and speak whatever a sighted person would see on
> > the screen?  A monitor connects to an AGP port and gets information.
> > It seems like it would be possible to create another device that connects
> > to the AGP port and gets the same information, except this device would
> > speak the information instead of showing it on the screen.  The device
> > would probably need to be a computer itself so it can be programmed to
> > pronounce words correctly.
> >
> > On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, to access the bios the most helpful tool is a braille printer such
> as a
> > > braille blazer.  You can sometimes use a print screen command to print
> the
> > > entire screen to a braille page and follow it through the menus and to
> see
> > > the options and what they are set to.
> > > It takes alot of time and paper to do it right, but the method does work
> in
> > > alot of cases.
> > > If you don't have a braille printer then all you have is sighted help to
> > > depend on.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "cris" <filastin48 at hotmail.com>
> > > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > > Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 2:52 PM
> > > Subject: changing bios settings, without eyes, how?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Folks,
> > > How can a blind person change the settings of the bios without sighted
> > > assistance?  I know that this subject was discussed zillions of times
> > > before, but are we close to a time when this will be possible?
> > > Cheers,
> > > Cris
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