Re: SGI O2 on 6.3 - Keyboard/Mouse issues

2018-09-16 Thread Hoelzer, Dave
That's interesting. Within Irix, I've never seen or experienced a problem with the keyboard or the mouse. >From what you are saying, it sounds as though the driver needs some reworking. > It seems as though the correct solution is to fix the driver rather than >install PCI cards, especially wh

Re: SGI O2 on 6.3 - Keyboard/Mouse issues

2018-09-16 Thread Peter Kay
The keyboard issue on an O2 is supposedly because it uses the PS/2 command set 3 rather than the more widely used 2. Even in Irix the keyboard handling isn't perfect. NetBSD is just as bad. I took the pragmatic approach of putting a keyboard faker on the PS/2 port and installing a USB PCI card,

SGI O2 on 6.3 - Keyboard/Mouse issues

2018-09-16 Thread Hoelzer, Dave
Good morning! I’ve recently installed 6.3 onto an SGI o2.. Yes, the hardware is all working properly; it was running Irix very happily until immediately before I installed OpenBSD. I’ve hunted around and can’t seem to find an explanation of these two issues: 1. The keyboard is wacky most