Re: SV 125 PS2 to Sun converter issue (keyboard not detected)

> You are correct in the fact that this particular one (SV 125) is not
> powered separately.  It works fine in Solaris as well as at the "Forth"
> {ok} prompt.
> 
> I have not hooked it up to a KVM yet, at this point, I am testing it
> with a normal PS2 keyboard and mouse.  I have tried multiple keyboards.
> 
> It should be noted as well that when I use the machine with the PS2
> keyboard that I cannot enter any text, but when I shut it down remotely
> I can then see text that I tried to enter with the PS2 keyboard at the
> "Forth" {ok} prompt.
> 
> If anyone happens to remember which combinations (machine & converter)
> have worked, please let me know.

I have been playing with the official Sun PS/2 adaptor brick in the
past, without any issues (can't tell you the Sun partnumber at the
moment, that device is still packed somewhere in a box).

If the OpenBSD kernel reports there is no keyboard, it is likely that
the adaptor does not correctly handle a Sun keyboard reset sequence (or
with relaxed timing). You might want to tinker in
sys/arch/sparc64/dev/comkbd_ebus.c comkbd_init() to figure out what
causes the code to consider the reset sequence did not get acknowledged
properly.

Miod