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Article #6570Re: Openwindows 2.0 and type 5 keyboard - incompatible ?
From: Chuck Fisher
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1993 05:09
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. -- Chuck Fisher mtdiablo system administrator chas@mtdiablo.sj.ca.us Data: (408) 435-0181 ...!netcom!mtdiablo!chas Voice: (408) 435-3011 B4 f++ t- w g+ dc k+ s+ m r l P7/6
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