changing bios settings, without eyes, how?

[Tom and Esther Ward]

Hi. There is no translation on the braille print out of the bios. Everything
comes out in grade 1 braille with no contractions etc...

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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 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: changing bios settings, without eyes, how?


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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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