On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 19:27 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Not sure about this using Apt, as I always let the kernel updates go > ahead. But I can see the kernels on the Grub menu, and you can't. No > text to speech at this stage. I'll post the question to Panu at > apt-rpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Perhaps he will have a suggestion. > > Nigel. > > Btw. I apologise if you don't understand some of what I've said. I'm > sighted, but find it difficult explaining something that I can see, to > someone who is blind. Perhaps I should just speak to you, just like I > would with a sighted person, perhaps leaving out the GUI stuff. It is possible to rig GRUB so that you can fly it blind, so to speak, even if you don't have a speech synth available at that point. You'd remove the hidden menu option, so a menu is always presented (that avoids having to hit another key at the right moment), and set it to beep when the menu appears (just with a control G key sequence somewhere in the printed text). When you hear the beep, you'd know that you had a few seconds to cursor up or down to a different kernel (counting the key strokes), and press enter to proceed, or you could just wait and let it boot up with the default. -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
