On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 21:33 +0000, Immolo wrote: > > Brian Szymanski wrote: > > If I were you I'd OpenBSD a shot - it has pretty good sparc support, > > and if the installer detects the keyboard, you've got some > > documentation (in the form of a driver) that you can look at. A few > > years back I had a similar machine (tadpole sparc laptop, don't > > remember which variety tho) which linux and NetBSD failed to > > understand keypresses from, but OpenBSD did just fine. > > > > Good luck... > Thanks OpenBSD does work with the keyboard but is there away to use this > so I can get the keyboard to work in Linux?
You would likely have to re-write the driver for Linux. A direct port may not be possible due to BSD/GPL licencing issues. Start by reading the source of the driver and brushing up on Linux kernel development. Cheers, - Martin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
