dsamperi@uunet.uu.net (Dominick Samperi) (04/27/91)
The Sun Sparc X server that is included on the MIT X Windows tape does not handle the keyboard indicator lights properly. For example, pressing the CAPS LOCK key does not cause the appropriate indicator light to be turned on. The program mit/server/ddx/sun/kbd_mode can be used to enable the indicator lights (by specifying the -a option), but this disables ALL keys that do not have indicator lights! The -u option will reenable these keys, but disable the indicator lights. (We are using Sparc 1+'s and Sparc 2's.) We have applied all 18 of the standard MIT patches, but these do not appear to address the problem. I guess the real problem is that the server code from Sun is not supported, in particular, it has not been modified to deal with the newer Sparc keyboards. Has anyone found a solution to this problem? Thanks in advance. Dominick Samperi -- Citicorp dsamperi@Citicorp.COM uunet!ccorp!dsamperi