Blind vs. mainstream distros

Linux for blind general discussion blinux-list at redhat.com
Tue May 2 12:07:42 UTC 2017


Replying to myself. I meant syslinux. Also, my machine has no PC speaker, so 
sound card support would be very helpful.

On 5/2/2017 4:48 AM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> Samuel can comment. The biggest problem has to do with loading sound drivers
> early in the boot process. It would take a lot of memory and slow down the
> boot time. Even as a blind person, I would find that annoying. The beep can
> be heard through the PC speaker and requires no sound drivers. I have yet to
> see a bootloader which actually supports sound. The beep is part of the menu
> system which is displayed by selinux.




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