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PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2003 8:14 pm    Post subject: ultra1 xfree type5 keyboard Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed May 07, 2003 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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"
EndSection
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PostPosted: Mon May 12, 2003 8:15 pm    Post subject: Type5 Keybd works but "l" is always "b" Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2003 5:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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"
EndSection
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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2003 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm running 4.3.0 - r2

I'm thinking some of the issues with Keyboards may be version dependant.
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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2003 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2003 8:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 :)
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2003 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

CRC,

Can you post your XF86Config and tell us what kind of keyboard you are using?


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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2003 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 :(
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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2003 5:14 pm    Post subject: L is B and , is v Reply with quote

Okay,

My keyboard still is making 'l'->'b', 'L'->'B', and ','->'v'

Should I file a bug report?

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PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2003 1:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 3:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Jun 23, 2003 1:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 9:18 pm    Post subject: Type 6 Keyboard Reply with quote

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"
EndSection

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 08, 2004 12:29 pm    Post subject: ultra 1 useability Reply with quote

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 ! :-D
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