If I were you I'd OpenBSD a shot - it has pretty good sparc support,
and if the installer detects the keyboard, you've got some
documentation (in the form of a driver) that you can look at. A few
years back I had a similar machine (tadpole sparc laptop, don't
remember which variety tho) which linux and NetBSD failed to understand
keypresses from, but OpenBSD did just fine. Good luck... Martin wrote: On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 21:29 +0000, Immolo wrote:Just recived contact and they are unwilling to give any documentation other then that what is at ftp://ftp.tadpole.com/support/SPARCLE/It will be significantly more difficult to write drivers for an undocumented device. Your first step should be to gather as much information as possible on it. sunhelp.org might be a good place to start as the rescue list has a lot of folks who are very knowledgeable about Sun kit. Have you identified via OpenBoot, proc, etc. what bus the keyboard is attached to and what the keyboard controllers are? Have you / can you open up the machine and find out what chips / parts are used? Cheers, - Martin -- Brian Szymanski email: skibrianski@gmail.com skype: xbrianskix cell: +1 202 747 4019 jabber: skibrianski@gmail.com aim: xbrianskix Ex cibus merda. Ex merda humus. Ex humus cibus. |