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Agreed. Finding the boot prompt is dificult. I was told by the devs who |
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build the livecds that they can't get the boot prompt to beep. They have |
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tried, with little success. |
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On Tue, 10 May 2005, Tony Baechler wrote: |
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> Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 00:09:53 -0700 |
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> From: Tony Baechler <tony@××××××××.net> |
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> Reply-To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o |
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> To: gentoo-accessibility@l.g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-accessibility] Accessible install of gentoo |
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> Hi. I am also blind and installed Gentoo with no problem at all. I agree |
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> that you need Speakup which works best with a hardware synthesizer. The |
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> only problem I had was knowing when to type the special boot command. I |
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> could hear the computer boot with the liveCD but I didn't know when it was |
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> at the boot prompt. Also, I suggest the gentoo-nofb kernel instead. It |
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> seems to work better. |
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> gentoo-nofb speakup_synth=synthname |
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> Again, I agree that you should look at linux-speakup.org. |
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> Tony Baechler |
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> Maintainer, goldenaudio.net (TM) online archives |
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> http://goldenaudio.net/ |
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Deedra Waters - Gentoo developer relations, accessibility and infrastructure - |
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