Re: SUN KEYBOARD PROBLEM, please help

[dan carter <dcarter@waitaki.otago.ac.nz>]

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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