Audible grup/lilo?

[John covici]

Just to let you know, both grub and lilo will put stuff out the serial
port, so if you have a hardware synth, you are in.

on Saturday 05/17/2008 Gaijin(gaijin at clearwire.net) wrote
 > 	Hello all,
 > 
 > 	Well, I've written  William Pitcock,  who appears in the
 > copyright notice to be lilo's maintainer at present, and asked to 
 > discuss the possibility of modifying lilo to include audible signals for
 > the visually impared.  Hopefully, something may come of it in future 
 > lilo releases.  I don't use grub, and don't even have the maintainer's 
 > address, so I'll leave it up  to you grub users.  I've mentioned 
 > increasing the frequency of beeps as you cursor down the menu, having a 
 > unique beep for item #1, to the possibility of using morse code to read 
 > out menu items to help the visually impared with the bootloader menus, 
 > and am still waiting for a reply.  I doubt it would be all that hard to
 > include an audible indicator feature in the boot menus that can be
 > toggled on in the .conf files.  We may not get it to spell things out in
 > morse code, but maybe we won't have to hack and recompile something in
 > on later releases if they show an interest.
 > 
 > 			Michael
 > 
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