Re: Accessibility in the FreeBSD installer and console

> Am 07.07.2022 um 23:26 schrieb John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net>:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 10:11:52PM +0200, Klaus Küchemann 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?
>> 
>> Possibly they didn’t 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 …..and of course USB  :-)
> 
>  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 
> 
`found 
< •  Introduced tascodec(4), a driver for the TI TAS2770/TAS5770 digital audio amplifier codec found on Apple M1 Macs.
	
• Introduced aplnco(4), a driver for the Numerically-controlled oscillator (NCO) clock which drives the audio clocks on Apple silicon.
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in
https://www.openbsd.org/plus71.html

and for some stunning fun :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B-XwPjn9YY#t=03m17s  
(start minute 3:17 ) 
:-)