[ On , October 8, 2002 at 08:10:50 (-0000), martin@netbsd.org wrote: ]
> Subject: Anyone got a type-4 keyboard?
>
> Folks, there has been some talk about it and I decided to try it myself:
> I booted a homemade 1.6 install CD on my Ultra 2 using keyboard/console.
> I left the terminal setting at "sun" (the default) and installed on a scratch
> disk. I could set the timezone without any problem. Cursor keys worked,
> and Page-Down/Page-Up moved forward/back a page.
> 
> But I found an old report, that blamed the problem on type-4 keyboards.
> Unfortunately I only own type 5 or type 6 ones, so I can't test these
> nor analyze or fix it.

At the moment I have only type-4 keyboards (though I do have a type-5 on
its way - even though I probably won't use it normally on my desktop).

I've not yet tried running sysinst, but I am now running my desktop on a
sparc-20 with a type-4 keyboard and the cursor keys work properly both
in X11 and on the console with a GENERIC kernel.

> If someone has a type 4 keyboard, could you please check this?
> You don't need to install anything new, just boot a 1.6 sysinst based install
> kernel or miniroot, select the Utility menu and go to "Change Timezone".
> You can bail out before changing anything on your disk.

Unless someone else gets around to it first I'll try booting an install
kernel the next time I have occasion to tear down by desktop session
(which may not be for up to a week, unless my Xserver happens to crash
again like it did the other day when I was playing with a pre-release
version of emacs, probably due to some strange font requests).

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