I don't know if Grub currently has any sound or accessibility support. How about having a config option to send some ASCII bell characters "\x07" to the terminal upon the events that you described? That would make a sound, but far from being a "tune". Would such a simple solution be good enough?
Regards, Hanson On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 4:38 AM Didier Spaier <did...@slint.fr> wrote: > Hello devs, > > The new installer of the Slint Linux distribution that I maintain allows in > guided mode to fully (minus the BiosBoot partition and the ESP) encrypt the > drive where Slint is installed, if this drive is dedicated to Slint. > > As the layout of the partition table then includes just one partition (and > optionally an additional one if there is enough space on the drive), we > store > a LUKS keyfile in the initrd and use cryptmount so that GRUB asks the > passprase, no need to type it several times. > > So far, so good. > > To help blind users GRUB plays a tune when it displays its menu. > > But in case of an encrypted drive this tune is played after decryption, > thus > blind users don't know if/when GRUB asks the passphrase, and if they type > it > blindly but don't hear the tune associated with the display of the boot > menu > in a reasonable amount of time (10 or 15 seconds or so), they don't know > what > happened: was the passphrase wrong, was it not asked for some reason, or > did > GRUB ask to press Enter after a warning to continue? > > I'd like that GRUB play a sound when asking the passphrase and/or in case > of > events like: the passphrase doesn't match, or another issue require an user > intervention like pressing Enter to acknowledge a warning. > > Is it already possible through some setting I didn't find? Or can the above > be considered as a feature request? In that latter case I am of course > ready > to test a patch. > > Best regards, > > Didier > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >
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