From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 27 19:04:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA12381 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:04:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA12374 for ; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 19:04:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rover.village.org [127.0.0.1] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.60 #1) id 0wLfn0-00076d-00; Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:03:38 -0600 To: Joe Diehl Subject: Re: sun type 5 keyboards (dream mode on) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:21:17 CDT." <199704280122.UAA08525@ksu.edu> References: <199704280122.UAA08525@ksu.edu> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:03:38 -0600 From: Warner Losh Message-Id: Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199704280122.UAA08525@ksu.edu> Joe Diehl writes: : I realize that at a technical level the sun type 5 keyboards work : differantly than a regular PC keyboard, which would make this task easier : said than done, but... What would it take to try to get a sun type 5 : keyboard and mouse working on a FreeBSD workstation? : : I'm assuming this would be a best classified as a hack, and might be looking : at modification to the bootblocks and the kernel, as well as finding some : method of running the keyboard through the serial port... Unless of course : for some odd reason the keyboard port on a p/c can actually handle a : sun keyboard (but I'm kind of thinking it won't). : : *shrug* thoughts? I've done something similar with solbourne keyboards (that are PC compatible, kinda). I ran into all kinds of problems, starting with the BIOS (since the kinda part was because the key scan codes were different) on down to the kernel and beyond. It was far cheaper to just buy a new keyboard that I liked than to waste more time that I already had on it. I put about 15 hours into this project before punting. Warner