Well if you want nerdy, how about GRML done out in morse code? As for the unmuting of the sound card, I used alsamixer with brltty, possibly not the most efficient combination but it worked for me.
Michael Whapples On 7 Nov 2011, at 14:59, John G. Heim wrote: > My problems with my hardware synth are absolutely not grml problems. I've > found the same problem occurs with the speakup module in the stock debian > kernel in the testing release. There is something wrong with the kernel > module for the doubletalk synt starting around kernel 2.6.38. It works in > kkernel version 2.6.32 and it works in newer kernels on 32 bit machines. Its > only newer 64 bit kernels where the problem occurs. > > I have not been able to get software speech to work but that's probably > because I don't know how to unmute a sound card in character mode. There > ought to be a linux package to set a rational configuration for sound cards. > There used to be a program called alsaconf but it was dropped from the alsa > packages a few years ago. I can't imagine why. It seemed to work like a charm. > > Anyway, personally, I am satisfied with hardware synth support and braille > support. If you say software speech works, so much the better. > > Although, I think it would be both useful and cool for grml to pplay a little > tune through the beep command when its done booting. Like ubuntu has its > distinctive drum beat when the GUI is done loading. It would become the grml > theme mmusic. I would make it my ring tone. I think it would be ccool to be > on the bus and have my phone ring and have some other nerd recognize it as > the grml boot tune. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Whapples" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 11:20 AM > Subject: [Grml] Accessibility works fine for me > > >> Hello, >> Just a quick note that for what I could test of the medium64 daily build >> accessibility seemed to work. >> >> Here is what I tested: >> * Let the ISO boot normally on a MacBookPro. >> * I got nothing to indicate that the CD had finished booting (don't know if >> that is what should happen currently). I just listened for when the CD >> activity seemed to stop. >> * I then tried to start brltty with no options and it started fine detecting >> my Braille display. >> * Then I checked sound levels. Everything except master seemed to be muted. >> As there was one channel labelled front speakers I decided to raise this >> volume first. Not sure if that is needed but if it is for sound output then >> may be that needs to be changed so that I will not need to raise that level. >> * I loaded the speakup_soft module which worked fine. >> * Started espeakup which also started fine. >> >> Things I could not test: >> * I could not test hardware speech output as my apollo synthesiser requires >> a serial port and the MacBookPro has no serial port. The MacBookPro is the >> only 64-bit computer I have. >> >> The main issues which come out of this is, some way of knowing the CD is >> booted (may be a sequence of beeps) and possibly the sound not being >> properly unmuted (which possibly is a hardware specific issue and may be >> harder to fix for "everyone"). >> >> Michael Whapples >> _______________________________________________ >> Grml mailing list - [email protected] >> http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml >> join #grml on irc.freenode.org >> grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ Grml mailing list - [email protected] http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml join #grml on irc.freenode.org grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/
