RE: accessible bios setup:thoughts?

  • From: "DaShiell, Jude T. CIV NAVAIR 1490, 1, 26" <jude.dashiell@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:38:18 -0400

Ports like the serial ports and parallel ports are still sold.  The
source I have for them is SMARTCO which means they won't be new, but
what we harvest from old computers could be diverted from the recycling
stream if demand exists for the items.



-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Trouble
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 9:56
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: accessible bios setup:thoughts?

Still hard to do, because they don't have those ports anymore.

At 08:48 AM 4/18/2011, you wrote:
>Unfortunately, as far as I could tell, this is impossible to do if 
>you don't use both a pc with a parallel port and a parallel printer 
>or braille display.
>No kind of emulation works in the bios.
>I wonder whether something could be done in that regard.... I'm not 
>too good on such low level stuff.
>----- Original Message ----- From: "Johannes Grib"
<johannesg@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:36 PM
>Subject: RE: accessible bios setup:thoughts?
>
>
>Quite right, also works with the old Apollo II, unfortunatly you get 
>the hole screen dump and have to do it for each and every time you 
>want to know if you managed to change a setting.
>
>Any one remember the old BIT, Braille Interface Terminal?  It used a 
>hardware card, ISA, with fermware that had it opperational by the 
>time the bios loaded.  The BIT worked in the bios.
>
>Kindest
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stefan
Moisei
>Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 2:23
>To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: accessible bios setup:thoughts?
>
>I have read that using the print screen key in bios worked with 
>parallel printers. Some even claimed they used it successfully with 
>parallel braille displays unstead of printers.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2011 10:54 PM
>Subject: accessible bios setup:thoughts?
>
>
>>Hello all:
>>I will be getting a desktop in the near future and I want to be able
to
>>work my way through the bios and configure everything like I want
(raid,
>>etc).
>>Have any of you found a way that can be used for someone across the
net to
>>work with you? I have a friend who said he would help, and I could
point
>>the webcam at the screen, but that's really hard if not impossible to
read
>>from the glow of the screen. Are there other solutions?
>>I have a male - male VGA port setup. Could I possibly somehow set it
up to
>>stream the video from the computer to something that I could transmit
>>across the net? this sounds like a cool little project, I'm just not
sure
>>where to begin. I'd think Linux would be a lot easier to write this
for.
>>
>>--
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Ty
>>
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