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#21 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 04:53 PM

On 2008-03-09, Casper H.S Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> wrote:
> "DoN. Nichols" <dnichols@d-and-d.com> writes:

[ ... ]

>> And did I encounter mention of the Model 7 having a USB socket
>>on the keyboard for the mouse? Glad to see that back -- though I
>>actually use the Logitech optical trackball by preference on the arm of
>>my chair where I sit wit the keyboard in my lap.
>
> Yes, the type 7 keyboard has a builtin unpowered hub with three USB
> connectors (one hidden in the location where type 5 used to have the
> mouse connector)

Great I'll keep my eyes open for them -- though it will probably
be some time before they start showing up at hamfests and the like.
What do they go for new?

And so -- there is now again a use for the second cable groove
moulded into the bottom. :-)

Thanks,
DoN.

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#22 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 04:53 PM

On Mar 4, 4:10*pm, Thomas Maier-Komor <tho...@maier-komor.de> wrote:
> BertieBigBol...@gmail.com schrieb:
>
>
>
> > Nope. Doesnt work :-(.
>
> > Man pages for eeprom dont mention keyboard-layout as one of the
> > parameters. Only thing similar is keymap.
>
> > BTW - Shift-~ gives the same.
>
> have you already read kbd(1) and tried the layout setting described in
> this man page?

Yes. /etc/default/kbd just seems to refer to things like abort
sequences / keyclick etc.

#23 (**permalink**) 03-10-2008, 04:53 PM

On Mar 6, 10:49*am, "BertieBigBol...@gmail.com"
<BertieBigBol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 11:03*pm, "Neal A. Lucier" <nluc...@math.purdue.edu> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > BertieBigBol...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Installed Solaris 9 on my Blade 1500 to which is attached a standard
> > > UK USB PC keyboard and mouse.
>
> > > Trouble is its not working properly. For starters (and most
> > > importantly!) I cant get the pipe character - instead I get ^@ when I
> > > hit the pipe key.
>
> > > Any ideas?
>
> > > Yes. I installed Solaris with UK support.
>
> > This is just a poor rehashing of the things I have learned from "ottomeister", a
> > Sun employee working on Sun Ray firmware who fully understands keyboards, and
> > you are better off searching the Sun Ray mailing list archives for information
> > on keyboards from him/her.
>
> >http://www.sun-rays.org/mailing-list.html
>
> > One such short email on the subject is:
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/sunray-u.../msg00434.html
>
> > However, there are longer ones that go into more detail both for Linux and Solaris.
>
> > That being said, keyboards need to have their layout properly set in their
> > firmware, so that when the X server queries the keyboard it can apply the proper
> > layout. *Sun as a responsible keyboard manufacturer always ensures that their
> > keyboards report the proper keyboard layout code; however, many PC keyboard
> > manufacturer's just set the layout value to '0'. *In the land of UNIX,this will
> > cause the X server to use a US keyboard layout instead of the appropriate one.
>
> > If you are only going to be connecting UK layout keyboards that report
> > themselves as layout '0' keyboards on this machine, you can edit the default
> > keytable mappings to change all type '0' keyboards to be UK keyboards.
>
> > I think this would be done by editing:
> > /usr/openwin/etc/keytables/keytable.map
>
> > And change:
> > 0 * * * 0 * * * US4.kt
>
> > to:
> > 0 * * * 0 * * * UK4.kt
>
> > There is also an xkbtable.map that may need to be edited if you are using xkb.
>
> > Again my understanding of this problem and solution is completely 2nd hand, and
> > I have never had to use it in the past having always purchased Sun keyboards.
>
> > Neal
>
> Neal,
>
> Thanks - I'll try that....
>
> Any idea if theres any way to detemine what layout value the keyboard
> is transmitting?- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

No joy. Still the same :-(

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Pipe character - Blade 1500 with UK PC keyboard.