12 Oct
2013
12 Oct
'13
2:39 p.m.
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:52:21 -0400 (EDT), 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.
I don't know if it actually works with a Type 3 keyboard, but the Linux
kernel supports Types 4 and 5 keyboards with the sunkbd module and the help
of inputattach (in your favourite distribution or at
http://sf.net/projects/linuxconsole).
Regards,
Stephen