Ruschmeyer, John wrote:
> 
> >I noticed a problem with type-4 keyboards: the up/down/left/rigth
> >keys from the numeric keypad don't work in text mode (for example,
> >hitting the upper arrow when in vi don't do what is expected).
> >These keys works fine under X, though.
> >Is there a way to get them work in text mode ? I use the 'sun'
> >termcap entry which may not be the rigth one.
> >This was not a problem until now, but now that these machines will
> >have regular users in front of the console I think I will get some
> >flames about that :)
> 
> On a similar note, on my system (Sparc 2 w/type 4), I can get the arrow
> keys to work with text-based apps in an Xterm (vi, etc.), but not with
> X-based apps (i.e., Netscape and Doom). Is there some trick to setting
> up the keyboard mappings for X11?

I have a similar problem with my SLC, except I haven't installed X
(yet).
Arrow keys don't work from the console, for example in vi.

Is there an easy fix?

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