Hi there!
On Sun, 8 Aug 1999, Wolfgang Ganzert wrote:
> [Snip]
> In Germany I did not found any books on RedHat concerning Sparc systems.
> Since Redhat differs somewhat from the SuSE (Intel) distribution and I now
> have a Sun workstation I have a couple of questions....
> [Snip]
For running the system, almost any good book on the RedHat distribution
should do, since there are not so many differences in systems
administration between intel and sparc (if you leave out the openPROM of
the sparc).
> [Snip]
> I use a German keyboard (Sun Model 5c) and up to now it is not possible to
> get the vertical dash ( | ) (for pipeing commands).
> [Snip]
Just like on PC keyboards, there's also one "AltGr"-Key on these
Sun-Keyboards. (at the lower right, if I remember corectly). If it doesn't
produce the wanted character, check the keyboard mapping with xev, and
possibly try xmodmap (as I did) or try adjusting the keyboard mapping in
one of the files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb - might get hairy, though.
> [Snip]
> Is there any easy use of the special keys on the left side from the main
> block or do I have to adapt the key mapping to use them? (In German these
> keys are called for example: "Foreground", Background", "Attributes",
> "Insert", "Open", "Copy", "Help" and so on.
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I think you would have to adapt the keyboard mapping.
> [Snip]
> Is it KDE which makes trouble or ar there any known bugs concerning the Sun
> hardware?
> [Snip]
Nope, it's definitely lacking upgrades. RedHat published a set of updates
for the Sparc architecture. Install these and most of the crashes of X
will be gone.
Sorry, neither spare parts nor documentation available from me for I lack
these myself.
With my best wishes
Frank Mayer, Systems Administrator
TU Wien
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