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From: benson@odi.COM
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Subject: Sun 4 keyboard
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Date: 23 Aug 89 13:42:01 GMT
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I've got some Sun type 4 keyboards. As previously reported,
SunOS 4.0.3 does not return type 4 for as type 4 board, it returns
type 3. As an interim kludge, I made sunKbd.c look for a file in the 
root (sun-kbd-4), and if it finds it it sets up for a type 4 keyboard.

The type 4 support in the X1r3 code seems wrong to me. 
I made Compose be Multi-Key, Alt Graph be Mode Switch,
Pause Payse, PrSc Print, Scroll/Lock/Break Break, and Num Lock Num lock.

I set up the Alt key (which is on the left) as Alt_L. I made it
default to being Mod2. that seems much more useful to me than Break,
which nothing uses.

I would be happy to supply the modified versions of sunKbd and sunKeyMap.

Now, I have a question. Should the server support NumLock? The keypad
is set up to do function keys unshifted and numbers / operations
shifted. I presume that the natural semantics of NumLock would be to
reverse that effect. Have the designers considered this possibility?

Any advice appreciated.

benson