"Phillip Steinbachs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of our employees suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome, and > requires an ergonic keyboard. We purchased a Kinesis Evolution > keyboard (http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/evol_track.htm), which has > dual trackpad mice. It has a standard PS/2 keyboard/mouse > connector, as well as a USB connector. We're using a generic PS/2 > to USB adapter cable (http://tinyurl.com/7yjxm) for the PS/2 > connector. Both cables are connected to a Sun Ray 1g. > > The keyboard portion of this device works, but the trackpads do > not. The left trackpad will scroll the cursor vertically, but > that's it. The right trackpad (native USB connector) does not work > at all. I have contacted Kinesis tech support to see what their > take on it is, but I suspect they'll point out that they only > support Windows.
The Kinesis website says that when their PS/2-to-USB adapter is used this keyboard is supported on Sun Blade workstations. If you have a Sun Blade lying around then it'd be worth trying the trackpad with your adapter plugged into the Blade. If it works on Sun Blade then that implies that your adapter presents the PS/2 pad as a USB mouse, in which case it should work on Sun Ray too. Perhaps the Kinesis adapter does something different than your generic one does, at least for the trackpad. The Kinesis site also says that the pads are built by Cirque, and the Cirque site hints that the USB version of the pad identifies itself as a USB mouse (technically a USB HID Pointer device) so the second (native-USB) pad should also work on Sun Ray because Sun Ray claims to support USB 1.1 HID Pointer devices in Boot Mode. If Cirque say that that's how their pads present themselves then it should be fairly straightforward for someone at Sun to either get the native pad working or at least figure out what's going wrong. > I am using PS/2 keyboards and mice with the generic adapter on Sun > Ray 1 units at home with no problems. I'm wondering if anyone has > had success with other ergonomic keyboards, or have run into a > similar problem. What information would Sun need in order to add > support for Kinesis devices? I haven't heard of anyone trying to use these trackpads with Sun Ray, you may be the first. Sun would first need to know whether these trackpads present themselves as USB HID Pointer Boot Mode devices. If they do then if we can play with one in the lab it should be fairly easy to figure out what's broken. If the Sun Ray firmware is misbehaving then we'd fix it. If the pad is misbehaving then we can report it the vendor but beyond that there's not much we can do. Getting one to play with might be tricky. Maybe we could get an eval unit from Kinesis, or maybe you could let us borrow yours. OttoM. __ ottomeister Disclaimer: These are my opinions. I do not speak for my employer. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
