SUN KEYBOARD PROBLEM, please help

SUN KEYBOARD PROBLEM, please help

[Eric FEILLANT]

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Hi,

I just installed SUSE 7.0 on my ULTRA SPARC 5 WS.

My keyboard (Sun type 5) works well in console mode but
have problem with Xfree86 (v3).

When i press the 'H' key i get 'G', when i press 'T' i get 'R', when i
press
6 i get '5' ...and so on ....

Any idea ?

Thanks



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Re: SUN KEYBOARD PROBLEM, please help

[David S. Miller]

Eric FEILLANT writes:
 > I just installed SUSE 7.0 on my ULTRA SPARC 5 WS.
 > 
 > My keyboard (Sun type 5) works well in console mode but
 > have problem with Xfree86 (v3).
 > 
 > When i press the 'H' key i get 'G', when i press 'T' i get 'R', when i
 > press
 > 6 i get '5' ...and so on ....
 > 
 > Any idea ?

It's possible Suse forgot to apply one of the patches to the X server.

At least in the 3.3.x based ATI/mach64 code we did, there was
a hack to subtract 1 from the Sun keyboard code before feeding
it to X.

I could be wrong, I haven't looked at the sources they are using.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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Re: SUN KEYBOARD PROBLEM, please help

[dan carter]

Eric FEILLANT wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just installed SUSE 7.0 on my ULTRA SPARC 5 WS.
> 
> My keyboard (Sun type 5) works well in console mode but
> have problem with Xfree86 (v3).
> 
> When i press the 'H' key i get 'G', when i press 'T' i get 'R', when i
> press
> 6 i get '5' ...and so on ....



Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Type 6 Keyboard
From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
Date: Tue Nov 28 2000 - 23:34:50 PST 

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Hi, 


On Tue, Nov 28, Robert V. Sigillito wrote: 


> I just installed SuSe 7.0 for the Sparc on an Ultra 5 with a type 6
> Keyboard. Everything went fine till I went to login. All the key's were
> offset. By that I mean to type an 's' you had to hit an 'a' to type a 'j'
> you hit a 'h'. 


This is a known problem with ATI graphiccards, YaST2 and english/US 
Keyboards. Switch to runlevel 2 and start "sax" to configure X11. 
After this the keyboard should work correct. 


  Thorsten 


Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Type 6 Keyboard
From: Joshua Uziel (uzi@suse.com)
Date: Tue Nov 28 2000 - 18:52:02 PST 

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* Robert V. Sigillito <rsigill@aplcenMP.apl.jhu.edu> [001128 18:37]: 
> I just installed SuSe 7.0 for the Sparc on an Ultra 5 with a type 6
> Keyboard. Everything went fine till I went to login. All the key's
> were offset. By that I mean to type an 's' you had to hit an 'a' to
> type a 'j' you hit a 'h'. 
> 
> I have a type 5 keyboard that I plan on connecting tomorrow. I was
> wondering if anyone else has had this problem. And yes, it was set for
> "U.S English". The only thing I can think is that SuSe 7.0 does not
> support the type 6 keyboard. Strange thing was when I was going
> through the install screens I was able to type in letters and numbers
> with no problem.


Yes, I saw this issue as well... the way I got around it was to do the 
following: 


* Start up the machine without using [xgk]dm (text console) one way or 
  another... I managed to do this by repetetively hitting ctrl-alt-f1 as 
  X was loading. 
* Stop [xgk]dm... in fact, go and configure the machine not to run them 
  while you do this (just in case). 
* Run SaX and configure X to be either 8 or 24 bits... but not 16 bits 
  (which in my theory is part of the issue)... try this and see that you 
  get it working. If you don't, I can send you my XF86Config file 
  tommorow. 
* Test it with a "startx"... if it works, get [xgk]dm running again. 


It was just something strangely misconfigured for my (on my U10, which 
is the same as a U5, just a different riser card and case)... give this 
a whirl and see how it goes. :)
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Re: SUN KEYBOARD PROBLEM, please help

[Eric FEILLANT]

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dan carter wrote:

> Eric FEILLANT wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed SUSE 7.0 on my ULTRA SPARC 5 WS.
> >
> > My keyboard (Sun type 5) works well in console mode but
> > have problem with Xfree86 (v3).
> >
> > When i press the 'H' key i get 'G', when i press 'T' i get 'R', when i
> > press
> > 6 i get '5' ...and so on ....
>
> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Type 6 Keyboard
> From: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk@suse.de)
> Date: Tue Nov 28 2000 - 23:34:50 PST
>
> New Message Reply Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [
> author ]
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Nov 28, Robert V. Sigillito wrote:
>
> > I just installed SuSe 7.0 for the Sparc on an Ultra 5 with a type 6
> > Keyboard. Everything went fine till I went to login. All the key's were
> > offset. By that I mean to type an 's' you had to hit an 'a' to type a 'j'
> > you hit a 'h'.
>
> This is a known problem with ATI graphiccards, YaST2 and english/US
> Keyboards. Switch to runlevel 2 and start "sax" to configure X11.
> After this the keyboard should work correct.
>
>   Thorsten
>
> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] Type 6 Keyboard
> From: Joshua Uziel (uzi@suse.com)
> Date: Tue Nov 28 2000 - 18:52:02 PST
>
> New Message Reply Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [
> author ]
>
> * Robert V. Sigillito <rsigill@aplcenMP.apl.jhu.edu> [001128 18:37]:
> > I just installed SuSe 7.0 for the Sparc on an Ultra 5 with a type 6
> > Keyboard. Everything went fine till I went to login. All the key's
> > were offset. By that I mean to type an 's' you had to hit an 'a' to
> > type a 'j' you hit a 'h'.
> >
> > I have a type 5 keyboard that I plan on connecting tomorrow. I was
> > wondering if anyone else has had this problem. And yes, it was set for
> > "U.S English". The only thing I can think is that SuSe 7.0 does not
> > support the type 6 keyboard. Strange thing was when I was going
> > through the install screens I was able to type in letters and numbers
> > with no problem.
>
> Yes, I saw this issue as well... the way I got around it was to do the
> following:
>
> * Start up the machine without using [xgk]dm (text console) one way or
>   another... I managed to do this by repetetively hitting ctrl-alt-f1 as
>   X was loading.
> * Stop [xgk]dm... in fact, go and configure the machine not to run them
>   while you do this (just in case).
> * Run SaX and configure X to be either 8 or 24 bits... but not 16 bits
>   (which in my theory is part of the issue)... try this and see that you
>   get it working. If you don't, I can send you my XF86Config file
>   tommorow.
> * Test it with a "startx"... if it works, get [xgk]dm running again.
>
> It was just something strangely misconfigured for my (on my U10, which
> is the same as a U5, just a different riser card and case)... give this
> a whirl and see how it goes. :)
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It does not work for me , can u send me u'r XF86config file ?

Thanks,
Eric.



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