]Sorry, Ulrich, you're goint to get 2 copies of this. Sent the first one to private email. Sending this one to the list... From: "Ul@ml.grml.org> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 5:25 PM Subject: Re: [Grml] sound appears to be muted
Sorry jenkins keeps just the last 10 builded ISOs.
The latest version is http://jenkins.grml.org/job/grml-full-amd64/799/artifact/2011-12-19_23-04-44... which should beep on the isolinux prompt and play 3 sounds in grub.
Well, I didn't get the beep at the isolinux prompt but sound is working. I was able to type in the commands to load the speakup_soft module and espeakup and got speech. I just waited for the tone, pressed q, and then typed in 'modprobe speakup_soft; espeakup' Very exciting!
I would like to try it with a USB headset on a machine w/o a sound card. If that works, you could rescue a server without using a hardware speech synthesizer. I don't know where I'm going to find a machine like that though. We have lots of 64 bit servers w/o sound cards but they're all in production. I can't just boot one of them into grml for testing purposes. But I'd also hate to find out I can't do that when its already an emergency.
It's not that important to me because I have a hardware speech synth. In the USA, your employer is required to buy you a speech synth if you need it. But that kind of thing is a lot easier to say than it is to do. Nobody wants to go to their boss and say, "Hey thanks for taking a chance on me even though I'm blind. By the way, you need to shell out $500 for this hardware speech synthesizer." So a lot of blind people don't have hardware speech synths. Plus those synths only work on machines with serial ports.
Anyway, personally, I think you guys have done outstanding work. I honestly think that you may have saved some jobs.
BTW, I'm not sure what you mean by 3 sounds in grub. Is that the tone you get when grml is finished booting? That's 4 tones so I think you must be referring to something else.