On Mar 5, 11:03*pm, "Neal A. Lucier" <nluc...@math.purdue.edu> wrote:
> BertieBigBol...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Installed Solaris 9 on my Blade 1500 to which is attached a standard
> > UK USB PC keyboard and mouse.
>
> > Trouble is its not working properly. For starters (and most
> > importantly!) I cant get the pipe character - instead I get ^@ when I
> > hit the pipe key.
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> > Yes. I installed Solaris with UK support.
>
> This is just a poor rehashing of the things I have learned from "ottomeister", a
> Sun employee working on Sun Ray firmware who fully understands keyboards, and
> you are better off searching the Sun Ray mailing list archives for information
> on keyboards from him/her.
>
> http://www.sun-rays.org/mailing-list.html
>
> One such short email on the subject is:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/sunray-u.../msg00434.html
>
> However, there are longer ones that go into more detail both for Linux andSolaris.
>
> That being said, keyboards need to have their layout properly set in their
> firmware, so that when the X server queries the keyboard it can apply the proper
> layout. *Sun as a responsible keyboard manufacturer always ensures that their
> keyboards report the proper keyboard layout code; however, many PC keyboard
> manufacturer's just set the layout value to '0'. *In the land of UNIX, this will
> cause the X server to use a US keyboard layout instead of the appropriate one.
>
> If you are only going to be connecting UK layout keyboards that report
> themselves as layout '0' keyboards on this machine, you can edit the default
> keytable mappings to change all type '0' keyboards to be UK keyboards.
>
> I think this would be done by editing:
> /usr/openwin/etc/keytables/keytable.map
>
> And change:
> 0 * * * 0 * * * US4.kt
>
> to:
> 0 * * * 0 * * * UK4.kt
>
> There is also an xkbtable.map that may need to be edited if you are using xkb.
>
> Again my understanding of this problem and solution is completely 2nd hand, and
> I have never had to use it in the past having always purchased Sun keyboards.
>
> Neal

Neal,

Thanks - I'll try that....

Any idea if theres any way to detemine what layout value the keyboard
is transmitting?