No it's not weird. Sun keyboards are translated to i386 by the kernel
in 2.6.xx.
Use the i386 keyboard map for your locale and this annoyance will go
away.
--- "Daniel E. Jonsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have an Ultra5 running a custom 2.6.8 kernel that I'm using as a
> LAMP
> server. I have a PCI USB 2.0 board installed so that I can use my
> PC104
> USB keyboard & mouse and put the Ultra5 on my 4-port USB KVM switch
> while I
> set everything up & debug, then I'll yank the USB board and move the
> machine across the building to the server room, where there's plenty
> of
> space for the Sun type 5 keyboard & mouse. The kernel I'm running
> now
> ("USB kernel") has USB and full HID compiled-in and sun KB & mouse as
>
> modules (not loaded). I also compiled the exact same kernel, but
> with Sun
> keyboard & mouse compiled-in and all USB stuff as modules ("Sun
> kernel"). The whole time using the USB kernel, I had to have the Sun
> KB
> attached so that the machine wouldn't boot to a serial console, and
> to
> interact with the OpenFirmware prompt.
>
> I just tried booting with the Sun kernel after (using the USB kernel)
>
> running 'dpkg-reconfigure console-data' followed by 'dpkg-reconfigure
>
> console-common'. Using these two commands, I set the system keyboard
> map
> to "sunkeymap", which is apparently correct for a Sun type 5 US
> keyboard. After rebooting, the system took no input from the USB
> keyboard
> and did take input from the Sun keyboard, as expected. However, what
> I
> didn't expect was this: the keys on the sun keyboard, even with the
> "sunkeymap" console mapping, generate exactly the same output as the
> keys
> on the USB keyboard when I run it with the Sun keyboard map. It's as
>
> though the Sun keyboard's firmware was reprogrammed to generate PC104
> scan
> codes. No, I'm not on drugs. And the Sun keyboard works normally at
> the
> OpenFirmware prompt. Anyone have any clue what's causing this? Any
> idea
> how I can fix this?
>
> As a very slight aside, my keyboard actually has "MODEL: TYPE 6"
> molded
> into the bottom, but it ran perfectly with the type 5 keymap before,
> and
> I've only ever read about type 6 keyboards in USB form.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dan.
>
>
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