gns wrote:
> I got a sparc system that already had Solaris running. It was working fine
> with a dell keyboard(via usb) and monitor connected to it.
> I took the system to OBP, connected a sun keyboard (since the earlier used
> accessories had moved to different location) and did some maintenance
> activity (booting into single user mode, change of IP, mount points, etc) and
> rebooted the system.
>
> When the system cameup the X-server failed to start. The /var/dt/Xerrors file
> indicated errors related to keyboard.
> The system worked fine with the sun keyboard on command line(without X).
>
> KIOCTYPE: Invalid argument
> ddxSUNWkbd: Keyboard type ioctl KIOCTYPE failed on /dev/kbd
Those errors indicate the kernel keyboard driver did not recognize your
keyboard - X on Solaris relies completely on the kernel to communicate
with keyboard devices. Check /var/adm/messages for errors or USB
hotplug event notices from the kernel drivers.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
