Re: [orca-list] Booting Ubuntu into Orca involves too muchcomplicatedkey-sequence (F5, Down, Down, Down, Enter)

[Y P <yellow penguin edpnet be>]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 05:15:17PM -0400, rjc wrote:
> I think there needs to be a sound omitted when boot keys can be pressed. Ya sure you can listen for CDRom 
> and hard drive noises, but this is very unreliable and completely irrelevant when trying to boot a virtual 
> machine.  I'd suggest some sort of tripple beep from the PC speaker - something which won't be confused 
> with other boot-time beeps - doesn't have to be pretty, just distinctive!!!
 
FYI, this kind of solutions have already been experienced in the BlinDIA
Debian Sarge mini iso installer-cd:
http://brlspeak.net/blindia.php 
http://brlspeak.net/blindia/
(you boot, then you hear six beeps, then you know that you can easily enter
brltty=bb,/dev/ttySX,text.tt.tbl).
Reproducing this alarm-system is IMHO a good and efficient idea.

Y P