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Re: Openwindows 2.0 and type 5 keyboard - incompatible ?

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From: Chuck Fisher
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 05:09
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In article <9334221.29906@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au>,
Nicholas James HOWDEN <howden@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
>I am currently trying to get OpenWindows 2.0 running on a sun4 - IPX with a type
>five keyboard. It doesn't start up and gives the message:
>	"Cannot initialise keyboard"
>I have tried swapping the keyboard for a type 4 and Openwin starts up fine - 
>with exactly the same software configuration. Is this a hardware fault in the
>keyboard (It works fine with X11) - or is Openwin 2.0 just incompatible with
>type five keyboards ??

Type 5 keyboards are incompatible with OW 2 unless you install the
software updates that are included with the keyboard.  Documentation
supplied with the keyboard details what needs to be updated.

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From: chas@netcomsv!mtdiablo (Chuck Fisher)
Subject: Re: Openwindows 2.0 and type 5 keyboard - incompatible ?
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Keywords: IPX sun keyboard typ 5
Organization: Ursine Associates, San Jose, CA  95134
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