10 Oct
2013
10 Oct
'13
9:38 a.m.
On 10 October 2013 16:52, Mouse <mouse at rodents-montreal.org> wrote:
If there were an easy way to use a type-3 with a
peecee, that would be
an option. But I tried that - the hardware interfacing is easy, but
peecee X servers aren't generally interested in talking to a Sun
keyboard on a serial port. I managed to bodge it into one, but lost
autorepeat in the process, which isn't really an acceptable tradeoff
for me. I contemplated building a layer to make it look like a PS/2
keyboard to the X server, but peecee keyboards are so different from
Sun keyboards, at least type-3 keyboards, that doing that would lose
much of the point.
This does seem to be a common comment, but there are both commercial
and DIY ways around it.
$50 USB adapter: http://www.vpi.us/usb-sun.html
(Possibly from here: http://www.networktechinc.com/optn-stu.html#sun )
DIY:
http://kentie.net/article/sunkbd/
(Newer version with volume support but less info:
http://kentie.net/article/sunmark2/ )
& some more info:
http://www.buzzard.me.uk/jonathan/sunkbd.html
Additional info:
http://deskthority.net/wiki/Sun_Type_5
Also note the comments re Linux usage here:
http://www.bedroomlan.org/hardware/sun-keyboards-usb
(This should "just work" on modern Linuxes. In theory.)
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