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timbo1 n00b
Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 7 Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 8:14 pm Post subject: ultra1 xfree type5 keyboard |
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I have successfully loaded an ultra 1 with gentoo, X, and KDE 3.1.1 (only four days for kde, not too shabby). My only issue is with the keyboard mapping. I have access to several types, the most common of which is type5c, whatever that is. None of the keyboard wizards work very well, and cutting and pasting from XF86config samples of people who've posted "got mine to work" didn't help either. I also have a type 6 keyboard, which doesn't even come close to working. At best, I've been able to get standard keys to work A-z, 0-9, but not punctuation ;':"./,\|-_+= etc. And even that's hit or miss.
Any ideas?
Please help, I'm almost home. after four days of compiling kde, i'd like to get this thing running.
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Ferris Retired Dev
Joined: 13 Jan 2003 Posts: 426 Location: N. Virginia (USA)
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Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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Did you ever have any luck with this? Here's what works for me(tm);
note commented lines (seemingly needed before -4.3.0-r2, a bad idea after)
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbKeycodes" "sun(type5)"
Option "XkbModel" "type5"
Option "XkbRules" "sun"
# Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbGeometry" "sun(type5)"
# Option "XkbSymbols" "sun/us(sun5)"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
Option "Device" "/dev/sunmouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
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CRC Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 90 Location: Dallas, TX, USA
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 8:15 pm Post subject: Type5 Keybd works but "l" is always "b" |
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always seems to give me a "b" - same scancode. I heard it had something to do with a recent patch for x86 that changes the ALT-PRINTSCREEN stuff and that hack breaks Sun support??
Any answers on this? I'd like to use X - especially if I can find the Creator card lying around for 24 bit - the 256 color CG6 cards blow.
BTW - typing this on the Ultra 1 using "links" in text mode. _________________ Unix/Linux Consulting & Hosting
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Weeve Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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Here's what I have in the config for an Ultra 5 (note I just posted the pertinant information from the config). Let us know if it helps.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "HandleSpecialKeys" "Always"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "sun"
Option "XkbModel" "type5"
Option "XkbLayout" "en_US"
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CRC Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 90 Location: Dallas, TX, USA
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Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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I'm running 4.3.0 - r2
I'm thinking some of the issues with Keyboards may be version dependant. _________________ Unix/Linux Consulting & Hosting
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torradan Retired Dev
Joined: 29 Dec 2002 Posts: 52 Location: Niagara Falls, NY
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 9:42 am Post subject: |
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In Section "ServerLayout"
add
Option "HandleSpecialKeys" "Always"
give this a try.. it fixed a few keyboard mapping problems I was having on my Ultra 5 w/ 4.3.0-r1/r2/r3 _________________ -Todd <todd@gentoo.org>
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CRC Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 90 Location: Dallas, TX, USA
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Posted: Thu May 15, 2003 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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That fixed most of the issues, but an 'l' still comes out as a 'b' .. make "ls", "kill" and most other commands pretty worthless. Maybe I should just alias lb to ls and kibb to kill and kibbabb to killall Oh yeah, and evobution Although my emails will look funny _________________ Unix/Linux Consulting & Hosting
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Weeve Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 11:22 am Post subject: |
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CRC,
Can you post your XF86Config and tell us what kind of keyboard you are using?
Thanks,
Weeve |
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CRC Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 90 Location: Dallas, TX, USA
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Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Sun Ultra 1 box, Type 5 keyboard
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
Option "HandleSpecialKeys" "Always"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
# Option "XkbKeycodes" "sun(type5)"
# Option "XkbTypes" "default"
# Option "XkbSymbols" "sun/us(sun5)"
# Option "XkbGeometry" "sun"
# Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
# Option "XkbModel" "sun"
# Option "XkbLayout" "sun/us"
Option "XkbRules" "sun"
Option "XkbModel" "type5"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
The rest is truncated as it shouldn't matter, and the commented out lines are just different things I was trying to make things work - but only made things worse. Luckily links and screen work very well together as GPM wouldn't cut-n-paste for me all the sudden _________________ Unix/Linux Consulting & Hosting
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CRC Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 90 Location: Dallas, TX, USA
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Posted: Tue May 20, 2003 5:14 pm Post subject: L is B and , is v |
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Okay,
My keyboard still is making 'l'->'b', 'L'->'B', and ','->'v'
Should I file a bug report?
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Weeve Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 641
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 1:16 am Post subject: |
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There is a bug open about this now (don't know if it was you or not). If not please add a note to it with your system info and a comment you are having the problem was well.
Thanks. |
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deuce n00b
Joined: 11 Dec 2002 Posts: 56
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 3:57 am Post subject: |
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The solution to the key mapping problem ('l' to 'b' & ',' to 'v') is that ARCH needs to be set to "sparc". Not "sparc64". The patch to correct the problem is only applied when ARCH="sparc" |
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Blademan Developer
Joined: 05 Oct 2002 Posts: 116
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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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deuce wrote: | The solution to the key mapping problem ('l' to 'b' & ',' to 'v') is that ARCH needs to be set to "sparc". Not "sparc64". The patch to correct the problem is only applied when ARCH="sparc" |
ARCH="sparc" - stable
ARCH="~sparc" - unstable
are the only valid settings for ARCH on SPARC. _________________ Blademan |
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freak4u n00b
Joined: 04 Jul 2003 Posts: 69 Location: MA, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject: Type 6 Keyboard |
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FYI: need to keep type5 for a type 6 keyboard. I tried changing the 5's to 6's and all letters were shifted to the left (weird). Worked fine telling it I had a type 5 though.
Ferris wrote: | Did you ever have any luck with this? Here's what works for me(tm);
note commented lines (seemingly needed before -4.3.0-r2, a bad idea after)
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbKeycodes" "sun(type5)"
Option "XkbModel" "type5"
Option "XkbRules" "sun"
# Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbGeometry" "sun(type5)"
# Option "XkbSymbols" "sun/us(sun5)"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "MouseSystems"
Option "Device" "/dev/sunmouse"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
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Sugarat Guru
Joined: 24 Jul 2002 Posts: 348
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Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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Out of interest - why do you use KDE on an Ultra 1?
I've got one here, but havent bothered putting Gentoo on it as it would be so slow..
Is KDE useable?
I've got an Ultra1 with two 4 gig hard disks, but I'm thinking its not really much good for anything desktop wise, - am I wrong? _________________ --[ UltraSPARC ]--
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GenTimJS Guru
Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA
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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:29 pm Post subject: ultra 1 useability |
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Ive got an ultra1 167mhz with only 128 megs of ram.
Currently it is a mailserver, dns server, webserver, and bittorrent box.
In the past however, I've used it in a "desktop" role, even with KDE, and although sluggish it ran just fine without any problems. As long as you dont mind waiting a few seconds for apps to start, there is no big deal. Compiling stuff is what takes forever...
Heck, it even ran quake1 ! _________________ -Tim Smith |
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