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Old 10-14-2011
Sun Ultra 5 Cahnge Keyboard Type
Hi, I have a Sun Ultra 5 workstation with Sun Keyboard Type 6.
My problem is the workstation recognize the keyboard as Keyboard Type 4 instead of type 6. How can I change the workstation to recognize sun keyboard type 6. Any idea?

# kbd -t
Type 4 Sun keyboard

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Old 10-14-2011
On Solaris 10 and 9 change the LAYOUT value in /etc/default/kbd (use kbd -s to get a list of allowed values). Then run kbd -i and finally reboot.
On older versions of Solaris try to run
Code:
kdmconfig

or you can issue eeprom command to set the keyboard layout
Code:
/usr/sbin/eeprom kbd-type yourKBDTypeGoesHere

Also have a look here you might find it useful.
Last edited by h@foorsa.biz; 10-14-2011 at 09:24 AM..
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Old 10-16-2011
I can't use kbd -s option, iilegal option. On my ultra 5 kbd option only for r,t,a,c,d and i. Also can't use kdmconfig - command not found.

Tried to use eeprom kbd-type ( data not available). When list eeprom for keymap: data not available.

Am I missing something here?
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