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From: capmkt!brent@uunet.uu.net (Brent Chapman)
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Subject: Re: Insult to injury
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Date: 22 Jun 89 20:29:18 GMT
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# We just got our first Sun3 with the type 4 keyboard.  Since we already run
# on the Sun386i, we thought we were ready for it.  We query the keyboard
# type and map the function keys et al accordingly.
# 
# However, under 4.0.1 on a Sun3, EVERY keyboard is reported as type 3!!!!!!
# It appears to be hard coded into the kernal.  Thanks folks, we really
# needed that.

What is the "kbdtype" field in the EEPROM set to?  You may be able to
reset it to something reasonable that does what you want.


-Brent
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