type 4 keybord problems

Jeremy Epstein trwacs!epstein at uunet.uu.net
Sat Mar 3 03:47:32 AEST 1990


In article <5399 at brazos.Rice.edu>, wally+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Wallace Colyer) writes:
> We have some sun3/60 that are really upgraded sun3/60's running SunOS 3.5.
> The following keys:
> 
> 	right shift key
> 	left shift key
> 	left diamond (X11 meta key)
> 
> stop working until the machine has been power cycled.

The only answer that I know of is to tell your keyboard to behave like a
type 3, instead of a type 4.  To do that, turn the keyboard upside down.
Next to one of the legs there's a little plate you can pry off.
Underneath you'll find a DIP switch...flip #1 and you'll be set.

Jeremy Epstein
epstein at trwacs.uu.net
TRW Systems Division
703-876-4202



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