On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:37:54AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > [ Following up on an old message ] > > Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If it has a Mach64 card, use this in /etc/apt/sources.list, and install > > the xserver-xfree86 package: > > > > deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ebranden/ woody/sparc/ > > > > As noted on this list the past few days, you'll have to change the > > keyboard settings in the resulting /etc/XF86Config-4 to this: > > > > XkbRules sun > > XkbModel type5 > > XkbLayout us > > Well, after installing Branden's 4.1 packages, and using the ATI > driver, we managed to get XFree to boot. The only problem is that > using the above settings, the keymap wasn't right. All the keys were > shifted left; a was s, d was f, etc. This is where we are currently > stuck.
Not sure about this one. Is it a type5 keyboard, or a ps2 keyboard? > One minor problem we ran into was that there was no device by which to > access a USB mouse; we ended up recompiling the kernel with devfs > support, and then /dev/input/mice showed up. Is there any reason the > standard 2.4.7-sun4u images don't have devfs support? Because then devfsd would be a required package. -- .----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=-----. / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
