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cdewick@lios.apana.org.au (Craig Dewick) writes:
>In <342C5E8A.2781E494@brainiac.com> Joe Hartley <jh@brainiac.com> writes:
>>> But the IPX uses the keyboard as a type 4, so (main disadvantage at the
>>> moment) the cursor-keys on the keyboard don't work.
>>> The "manual" i got with the keyboard says you need (at least) SunOS 4.1 and
>>> a BootPROM > 2.5. The IPX has a 2.6 BootPROM.

>>When I first began getting Suns with type 5 keyboards, I would get a
>>CD with some patches to support the keyboard.  I believe that if you
>>can upgrade the OS to 4.1.3 you get the type 5 support, otherwise you
>>should try to find a copy of the patches.

>Yes, but the keyboard still looks like a type-4 to the system. Type-5's
>don't identify themselves as type-5 kbd's - they always identify as type-4's
>going from my experience with them.

>I'm not sure what's happened since the Sun-4u's came out - maybe they've got
>a completely new type of kbd.

Huh? I've never had a problem running a type 5 keyboard on an IPX. My
cursor keys work fine, where the programs are written to be able to
use the cursor keys. It acts exactly like a type4, and exactly like a
type5 does on a SS5, or a SS20, or an Ultra. I've even run a type5
keyboard on a Sun 3/50, with everything working normally, although I'd
expect the Sun3/50 not to have all the KeySYM's known that more modern
versions know about. 

Not having the actual spec's around for the keyboards, I'd still have
to say that a type5 is the same as a type4 electronicly, with just a
different layout of the keys, and a different feel. Scanning through
/usr/include/sys/kbd.h, there is no mention of type5, they only
differentiate between type2, type3, and type4. 

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