Hello, Oh boy! Ok. I did know about setting the PRAM but totally forgout all about that. It never occured to me that just because the VO Command didn’t speak when unlocking FileVault, that it would even work. I’ll give this a try. Because I am a total system junky.
> On Apr 13, 2015, at 10:19 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > Hi, > > No real answer to the problem but I have two workarounds for you. > > 1. After pressing cmd-f5 and you notice that there is no sound, press > VO-cmd-left arrow three times, then press VO-cmd-up arrow a number of times. > The System volume will increase and you should soon hear VO speak. > > or, if everything seems to be messed up and you can’t make it work that way... > > 2. Reset your PRAM. This will put things like the sound back to defaults > and the next time you turn on VO, sound will be there. > > Sorry, not the exact thing you were looking for, but it may help. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Apr 13, 2015, at 21:57, Christopher-Mark Gilland <clgillan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Wow, Joseph. > > Just! freaking, wow! Seeing how advanced I am of a mac user, I always love! > the questions like this, which really get you thinking/ponderring. I'm gonna > have to definitely research this, but man oh man! You really have got me > curious now! If you find out anything, let me know, I'd be profoundly > interested in your findings. > > Feel free to hold on to my e-mail address and keep me updated. > > clgillan...@gmail.com > > chris. > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph" <ablindvou...@icloud.com> > To: <Macvisionaries@Googlegroups.com> > Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 12:57 PM > Subject: A question regarding Startup Volume in LowLevel / FileVault Startup > > > Hello List, > Here’s an interesting situation that I’d like to bounce off all of you. > On one of our MBPs using FileVault and several accounts. Here’s the problem. > Say, I log in under my account using the VO prompts after hitting Command F5. > The machine requests the account name. Then I press enter and it asks for > password. Then I press enter and the machine gives three beeps or an error > message, in either case, the machine either starts or lets me give it another > try. > Ok., all’s well and fine. > Now for the problem. > User #3 gets on the computer and logs in. This user isn’t a VO user, so > volumes and things don’t really mean much. He logs in and in the course of > using the computer, for some reason he decides to reduce the volume to 0. > The problem is that when I go to log in as a VO user, I have no output info > regarding the state of things while using VO after Command F5. > So here’s the Billion Dollar question. > Does anyone know of any way to preset the volume level at the > FileVault/Recovery system level for VO users at a constant value, no matter > what any other users do. If the audio provided at this low level is > influenced by users after logging in, I kind of am a little curious as to why > this isn’t completely isolated from post boot conditions. > Again, does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could preset and lock the > Volume Level for Pre Unlock or Recovery modes? > For example something preset in terminal or in the ROM somehow? > Thanks in advance. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
