Re: UNIX keyboard on i386

[Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong <masee@usa.net>]

>>>>> "Nils-Erik" == Nils-Erik Svangård <nisse@medio.mh.se> writes:

    > Hello all.

    > I'm trying to get an old UNIX keyboard working on my P100.  When
    > I restart the computer with the keyboard I get a errormessage
    > that says something like "to many NACK's, check you cables".  I
    > have located the .c file that contains that row, but havent been
    > able to do much about it.  So my questions are - is it possible
    > to get a UNIX keyboard working on i386 board?  

Careful, I had a friend who fried his keyboard bios trying to use a
Alpha keyboard with his PC.  I don't know about UNIX keyboards, but
there would probably be a lot of hacking to make it work.  Just an
anecdote.

Marshal

    > - has this
    > already been done, where can i find info?  - do i have to make a
    > kernel module that checks all input values it get from the new
    > keyboard, and interpret them and send them away to be
    > transparantly mappad to the old keyboard driver?

    > /nisse


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