knowing when the computer is booted

[Roy Nickelson]

hi,
I use a removable hd so I don't get any probps from lilo.  the first screen
that comes up is the login screen.  Now is there a way to make speakup start
talking at this point?  that would be really neet.
Roy


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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: knowing when the computer is booted


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Since your subject says "knowing when the computer is bootted", and
you're saying you've got lilo, I'm not sure if you mean that the
computer is right after the post, at the lilo prompt, or if you mean
that everything has loaded, and you're ready to login to and start
using the system.

If you're talking about your pc being at the lilo prompt, you can
place a ctrl+g in your boot message file, which will beep your pc
speaker when the boot message is displayed, which will let you know
that you're at the lilo prompt.

If you want to know when you can login, you can place a ctrl+g in your
/etc/issue file, which will beep the pc speaker when the welcome
message is displayed, letting you know that the system is ready for
you to login.

Hth.

Greg


On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 09:04:23PM -0500, Roy Nickelson wrote:
> hi,
> how do you know when the computer is bootted with linux. With windows I
get a
> nice startup sound and jaws starts talking. With linux I just have to wait
> until the hard drive stops. Unfortunantely with the drive I have this
isn't
> a good solution because it is too quiet.
> i have a line in my lilo.conf file that says
> speakup_dectlk
>
> this is on the same line that starts with append = and has some other
stuff
> that I don't remember. I am using redhat 9.
> Roy
>
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