Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2022 23:49:10 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Klaus_K=C3=BCchemann?= <maciphone2@googlemail.com> To: John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net>, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console Message-ID: <08A452AA-E8C1-4C7B-AD25-A2930EB03556@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <YsdPereWgzPLLMyA@phouka1.phouka.net> References: <a26455cf-0e86-7932-f9e4-f4cb013f7737@selasky.org> <45ACA785-05BF-496B-8D0A-AD2A4A2293D1@googlemail.com> <YsdPereWgzPLLMyA@phouka1.phouka.net>
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> Am 07.07.2022 um 23:26 schrieb John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net>: >=20 > On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 10:11:52PM +0200, Klaus K=C3=BCchemann wrote: >>> Am 07.07.2022 um 19:32 schrieb Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky = org>: >>> The only argument I've heard from some non-sighted friends about not = using FreeBSD natively is that ooh, MacOSX is so cool. It starts = speaking from the start if I press this and this key. Is anyone here = working on or wanting such a feature? >>=20 >> Possibly they didn=E2=80=99t want to be rude and your friends didn't = tell you the other argument :-) : according to the corresponding wiki = page FreeBSD doesn't natively support any audio output at all on your = friends current M1 Mac hardware. >> since quite nothing is currently supported you probably will first = take over working on the Audio driver =E2=80=A6..and of course USB :-) >=20 > I think a huge benefit that Apple would have is that they might be > able to guarantee some sort of audio speaker, period, since they > control the hardware that the software runs on. That might be a big = ask > on FreeBSD, but maybe if there was some relatively ubiqitous=20 >=20 `found=20 < =E2=80=A2 Introduced tascodec(4), a driver for the TI TAS2770/TAS5770 = digital audio amplifier codec found on Apple M1 Macs. =09 =E2=80=A2 Introduced aplnco(4), a driver for the Numerically-controlled = oscillator (NCO) clock which drives the audio clocks on Apple silicon. > in https://www.openbsd.org/plus71.html and for some stunning fun : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D2B-XwPjn9YY#t=3D03m17s =20 (start minute 3:17 )=20 :-)
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