Hillel Lubman wrote:
> I like extra sun keys (on Sun Type 5/6/7 keyboards), which work with
> OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana and X.org "out of the box". But on Linux those keys
> aren't recognized by default.
>
> I tried running xev on Debian with Sun Type 5 keyboard attached (through a
> convertor to USB). It doesn't show any events for sun keys at all. How and
> where are they supposed to be configured so X would recognize them?
You need the kernel keyboard driver to detect them and pass the keystrokes up
to Xorg. I don't know if/how that works with a Sun serial <-> USB converter.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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