Re: SPARC64: Configuration offers keyboards that don't make sense

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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On Fri, 2005-10-28 17:09:31 -0300, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> On my Sun I get the following offers:
> 
>    AT Keyboard
>    Sun types 4 and 5
>    DECstation LK201/LK401
>    XT keyboard
>    Newton keyboard
> 
> Unless I am very mistaken, only the second one applies?

Well, the LK[24]01 was used by DECstations and VAXstations (as well as
some VT terminals), you can use it with a simple adaptor on any
machine that has a RS232 serial port. For example, I'm using such a
keyboard on my Athlon-based PeeCee.

> Also, configuring this one gives a non-functional keyboard (the machine is
> running, I can log in over SSH, but keypresses have no effect at all).

Did the serial port register serio ports?

MfG, JBG

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