Thanks to Elizabeth and Dr. Tom. The short answer is, it ain't gonna happen!
To quote more fully from Dr. Blinn's missive: "Tru64 UNIX supports a very
limited number of keyboard scancodes, which are the character sequences the
keyboard and the host use to talk to one another. Your keyboard doesn't
respond correctly for any of the scancode sequences supported by the
system. The code that makes this work is embedded partly in the kernel and
partly in the X window system and changing it takes all the sources for
both and a build environment that would let you make the changes and verify
them. Forget it."
Consider it forgotten...
Dan
At 02:03 PM 2/7/2002 -0500, Dan Harrington wrote:
>Hello Managers!
>
>An engineer in my group has brought in his favorite keyboard, a vintage
>IBM PC/AT beast that weighs as much as a small Volkswagen. When plugged
>into his system (XP1000) it works just fine at the console prompt, which
>has the keyboard variable set to PCXAL, but during the Tru64 (V4.0F) boot
>we get the message "pcxal_init_keyboard: keyboard init unsuccessful".
>
>Would anyone know if this keyboard can be configured to work with Tru64,
>and how? [recognizing, of course, that it's probably not a supported
>configuration]
>
>Thanks all!
>
>Dan
Received on Thu Feb 07 2002 - 21:24:28 NZDT