Subject: Re: kd (keyboard/display) console fixed
To: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@jericho.mc.com>
From: Harry Schreurs <HLS@oce.nl>
List: port-sun3
Date: 06/09/1994 14:58:10
> > But the bad part is, that it doesn't respond to my keyboard.
> > Watching the #-prompt, I am not able to type in any command!!
> 
> The initialization code in the kbd driver was not working, but
> it is fixed now.  The old initialization scheme only worked if
> kbd_ascii was called before kbd_serial (yuch) and the order of
> these calls depends on what autoconfiguration does.  The fixed
> code initializes the kbd port upon the first open of either
> /dev/kbd or /dev/kd (indirect through /dev/console).
> 
> The following files were changed:
>     src/sys/arch/sun3/dev/kbd.c
>     src/sys/arch/sun3/dev/kd.c
> 

Gordon,

Thank you for fixing the keyboard/display driver.
I verified that it works on my system.
I don't think the NUM lock key is working, but this 
isn't that important at this point in time. I'll will look
into this in the near future :-)

At this moment /dev/ttya is being used as the console port.
The reason for this being that for now it's impossible to use
large black and white screen of my SUN 3/50.

The memory that is occupied by the frame buffer at 0x100000 is also being
used by the kernel to load programs in! When the system is up and running,
I literally see the programs running on the screen!

Thanx,

Harry Schreurs

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