From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 28 19:04:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA15249 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 19:04:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cynic.portal.ca (root@cynic.portal.ca [204.174.36.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA15238 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 19:04:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([[UNIX: localhost]]) by cynic.portal.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA13405; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 19:04:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.portal.ca: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 19:04:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Curt Sampson To: Joe Diehl cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sun type 5 keyboards (dream mode on) In-Reply-To: <199704280122.UAA08525@ksu.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 27 Apr 1997, Joe Diehl wrote: > 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? If you can live with using it only under X, it's probably not too tough. Rip the Sun keyboard driver out of NetBSD and port it to FreeBSD, to run over a PC serial port rather than the Sun serial port. Sun runs on 5v rather than RS-232's 12v, so you'll probably need to build a little voltage converter beastie, too. I've considered doing this a couple of times, but it's easier just to run NetBSD on my Suns instead. :-) cjs Curt Sampson cjs@portal.ca Info at http://www.portal.ca/ Internet Portal Services, Inc. Through infinite myst, software reverberates Vancouver, BC (604) 257-9400 In code possess'd of invisible folly.