Re: Sun blade 100
On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:37:54AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> [ Following up on an old message ]
>
> Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
>
> > If it has a Mach64 card, use this in /etc/apt/sources.list, and install
> > the xserver-xfree86 package:
> >
> > deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/sparc/
> >
> > As noted on this list the past few days, you'll have to change the
> > keyboard settings in the resulting /etc/XF86Config-4 to this:
> >
> > XkbRules sun
> > XkbModel type5
> > XkbLayout us
>
> Well, after installing Branden's 4.1 packages, and using the ATI
> driver, we managed to get XFree to boot. The only problem is that
> using the above settings, the keymap wasn't right. All the keys were
> shifted left; a was s, d was f, etc. This is where we are currently
> stuck.
Not sure about this one. Is it a type5 keyboard, or a ps2 keyboard?
> One minor problem we ran into was that there was no device by which to
> access a USB mouse; we ended up recompiling the kernel with devfs
> support, and then /dev/input/mice showed up. Is there any reason the
> standard 2.4.7-sun4u images don't have devfs support?
Because then devfsd would be a required package.
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