Speakup Digest, Vol 51, Issue 15

[Jude DaShiell]

If the schematic for the pc weasel card ever gets available, I know a few 
people who could make those and put them back out on the market.



On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, speakup-request at braille.uwo.ca wrote:

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>   1. Re: program to change bios settings with software speech
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> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:26:00 -0600
> From: "John Heim" <jheim at math.wisc.edu>
> Subject: Re: program to change bios settings with software speech
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
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> I don't believe the PC Weasel card is in production any longer. However, I
> just put together a new machine with an ASUS M2A-VM  motherboard and  I was
> able to get into the bios setup program with my PC Weasel card.
>
> Until now, the PC Weasel hasn't worked with the bios setup programs in any
> of the computers I've owned for years. I wasn't even going to bother to try
> it but I figured what the heck. I was really surprised when it worked. All I
> can figure out is that maybe the bios setup program is smart enough to know
> that the VGA card can't go into graphics mode.  Or maybe the bios setup
> program is a character based program. I don't know why bios setup programs
> have to try to put the display into graphics mode anyway.  That's just dumb.
>
> Anyway, the bios setup program on an Asus  M2A-VM   motherboard will work
> with a PC Weasel. Just thought I'd throw this tidbit out there for anyone
> who might be helped by it. Maybe if you really need to configure your own
> bios, you can buy a PC Weasel card off ebay and get this mobo.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry at gotss.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:47 PM
> Subject: Re: program to change bios settings with software speech
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>> No; there are so many different bioses and each bios interprets cmos
>> values
>> in a different way.
>> You can save and restore the cmos under Linux but changing it isn't easy.
>> you can do it with a pc-wiesel card and a serial link or on a server bios
>> you can do it over a serial port on some models;
>> otherwise get a friendly sighted person to help; that's what we all
>> usually
>> do.
>> There has been some push to make an open bios for the pc; however it is
>> not
>> necessarily in the manifacturer's interest to put too much time into this.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Doug Smith" <dougsmith1 at charter.net>
>> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 1:38 PM
>> Subject: program to change bios settings with software speech
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>>> Is there a program that will allow you to change bios settings using
>>> software speech?
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>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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