changing bios settings, without eyes, how?

[Igor Gueths]

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One problem though. How do you translate the output, or does the blazer 
do this natively? 
On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:11:51PM -0500, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> While the Blazer will read the entire screen to you, you will want a hard
> copy of what you are looking at to remember all the menus or to look at the
> options.
> In my bios the command was the print key next to the scroll lock key which
> sent all the screen data to the blazer.
> You don't need a conversion cable as the Blazer has both parallel and serial
> ports.  The parallel  port is for use with pc's, and serial port is for use
> with notetakers such as the BNS.
> 
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> From: "Igor Gueths" <igueths at lava-net.com>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 12:19 AM
> Subject: Re: changing bios settings, without eyes, how?
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> > Although wouldn't you have to have some osrt of parallel to serial
> > adapter plugged into the parallel port of the Blazer, since the print
> > screen command won't send output to the serial port?
> > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 10:38:22PM -0600, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > > Since the blazer can also speak whatever comes in through its parallel
> > > port, you theoretically wouldn't need lots of paper.
> > >
> > > I'll have to try this some time to see if it works. I assume the
> > > print screen key on the keyboard is used to issue the print screen
> > > command?
> > >
> > > Greg
> > >
> > > P.S. My machines here all have Award BIOSes, anyone know if this works
> > > for a fact with Award BIOSes?
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:18:19PM -0500, 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.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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