Subject: Re: Type 4 keyboard and console
To: 'port-sparc@NetBSD.org' <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Ruschmeyer, John <jruschme@att.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/16/1998 10:31:35
>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?

Thanks... <<<John>>>