Re: Q: sun serial keyboard on x86 system?

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:36:26PM +0200, Ralf Ackermann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> i try using a serial sun5 keyboard on an x86 system.
> I've used the adapter described at the "Linux Input Project" site - and
> can see characters arriving on keypress / release when using e.g. minicom
> on the serial port the keyboard is attached to.
> 
> Unfortunately i fail to get the keyboard itself working
> I'm using Linux 2.4.1.
> I do an
> 	insmod .../serial.o
> 	insmod .../serio.o
> 	insmod .../serport.o
> 
> 	inputattach -skb /dev/ttyS0 &
> 
> 	insmod .../input.o
> 	insmod .../evdev.o
> 	insmod .../keybdev.o
> 
> but apart from an entry
> 	Mar 27 23:01:16 dell kernel: serio0: Serial port tts/0
> in /var/log/messages i don't get any further reaction.
> 
> Is there something special that i miss? 

sunkbd.o

> Do i have to create any special
> devices in /dev/... ?
> How to debug the whole process? Is evtest usefull for that - or does it
> primarly deal with joystick devices / mice?

Evtest will work once the device is found. You're still missing the most
important driver of the stack.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs