[Fwd: Puppy Linux]

[Tony Baechler]

Yes, unless there is either a. no sound card, b. no supported kernel 
driver, c. no speakers, or d. the person doesn't understand the language 
of the prompt. It's a nice idea, but I suspect the Mac has better out of 
the box sound card support. Linux will support sound cards via alsa 
drivers but I never could get it to work when I tried except for very 
basic wave files on a generic SB16. Maybe a better way would be to probe 
the serial ports for a hardware synthesizer but that could screw up 
other serial devices. I think the best bet would be a beep through the 
PC speaker after the system is booted and waiting at a prompt. That 
still isn't perfect as newer computers don't have PC speakers or they 
are very quiet but it's better than no feedback at all.

Jude DaShiell wrote:
> pebrock may fill the bill for the accessible chat program and so far 
> as I know, it's floss. If a self-booting linux gets made that puts a 
> message up on the screen and waits a certain amount of time for a 
> response then rather than going on with bringing up the rest of the 
> system asks a question over the sound system and if it gets an 
> affirmative answer turns on software speech for the rest of the 
> session then you'll have something akin to the tiger install 
> environment for the apple macintosh as well as leopard.