On Tue, Jul 23, 2019, at 1:06 PM, Martin McCormick wrote:
> I absolutely hate what I call "press and pray" in which
> the silent world prevails and you count button presses in the
> silence and hope and pray that nothing weird happens.
>
> Failing speech, I know grub can be configured to work
> through a serial port if one exists at the time grub is needed.
I remember a long time ago when I used Open Suse, they had this thing where you
could press f9 and it would play speech through the pc speaker of the items in
the boot menu. It would probably be possible to have a script that created
small wav files based on grub boot menu items using espeak-ng. This would
likely be a good start and much easier than getting actual sound devices
working. Modern sound cards require many complex things like pin configuration
before anything works. The kernel has files with many individual hardware
devices and their pin configs to make sure this all works properly. I would
imagine that initializing a modern sound card would be a difficult project to
get working in grub.
