Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 17:05:01 -0600 (CST) From: "Nem W Schlecht" Subject: Kinesis & RS/6000 To: dwallach@fs.CS.Princeton.EDU Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Work: IACC, Room 242J6, 1(701)231-7584 Home: 910 3rd. Ave. S., Fargo. 1(701)237-6733 UNIX: The one and only operating system. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I'm planning on getting a Kinesis keyboard (thanks for your work on the FAQ!), and recently talked to a rep. at Kinesis about getting a keyboard and hooking it up to my RS/6000. Will (the guy at Kinesis) told me to try a reg. PS/2 keyboard on my RS/6000 and see how it works. So, I did, and as I expected, I had to run /usr/lpp/diagnostics/da/dkbd, but afterwards everything worked fine. I suppose I should have waited to send you this note until I have a Kinesis sitting here in front of me, but I wanted to know if you could describe to me in more detail anything you know about hooking one up to an RS/6000. Will also mentioned something about changing something with the keyboard and then it might work. (I was confused.) ----- Nem W Schlecht nem@abattoir.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu N.D.U.S. Information Services UNIX and X Windows Sys. Admin Home Page - ----------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 18:39:01 -0600 (CST) From: "Nem W Schlecht" Subject: Re: Kinesis & RS/6000 To: dwallach@fs.CS.Princeton.EDU In-reply-to: <199602130033.AAA23579@cs> from "Dan Wallach" at Feb 12, 1996 07: 33:36 PM Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Work: IACC, Room 242J6, 1(701)231-7584 Home: 910 3rd. Ave. S., Fargo. 1(701)237-6733 UNIX: The one and only operating system. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dan Wallach e-mailed me on Mon Feb 12 18:33:36 1996 (Re: "Re: Kinesis & RS/6000") > >If "dkbd" worked fine (what exactly is it, anyway?), and your >generic PS/2 keyboard worked, you're in good shape. Try a keyboard >from some random PC clone. If that also works, you should have >no trouble with the Kinesis. That's what I tried! (cool). dkbd is a part of a bunch of programs in /usr/lpp/diagnostics/da that help to determine problems with an RS/6000. I use dkbd (and dkbdsal for 220s - there's also a dkbda - don't know what that one's for) when I unplug (either on purpose or accidently) my keyboard and then plug it back it. The machine is *slightly* screwed. It seems pretty consisten to me that the "ESC" key afterwards turns on the NumLock and NumLock sends "\"s but most everything else words. Anyways, you run dkbd, the screen flickers and then everything is honky-dorey with the new keyboard attached. I have a 360, and it seems to me that things didn't quite work so well with my old 220. I can check into it though. ----- Nem W Schlecht nem@abattoir.cc.ndsu.nodak.edu N.D.U.S. Information Services UNIX and X Windows Sys. Admin Home Page - -----------------------------------------------------------