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USB Keyboard does not work on SCO OpenServer 6.

After installing SCO OpenServer 6 on a Dell PowerEdge T110 the USB Keyboard does not work all the time.
It usually takes a 2nd reboot to get the USB Keyboard to work.

The following software is installed:
SCO OpenServer Release 6.0.0 (ver 6.0.0Ni)
OSS714A - OpenServer 6 Maintenance Pack 4 UDI/USB Supplement (ver 1
SCO OpenServer Release 6.0.0 Maintenance Pack 4 (ver 1.0.0Ce)

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
TIA,
Dan

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Dan Kaib

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Thank you for your respones mikelfritz.

I will try that.

I also just found the following that may be adding to the problem.
If I go into scoadmin -> Hardware/Kernel Manager -> Tune Parameters and select option 13 Keyboard mapping (KBD) Parameters, I get the following message:

KBDTIME <<**** consistency error: parameter not found in 'mtune' file

KBDTIME is in the following files in directory /etc/conf/cf.d:
l$ grep KBDTIME *
changedb:KBDTIME
config.h:#define KBDTIME 20
mtune:KBDTIME 20 5 500 %%INS%%
mtune_d:% KBDTIME
mtune_d:set for KBDTIME is outside this range, the module forces it to
mtune_p:KBDTIME

Do you know what this error means and is there another 'mtune' file it is looking for?

Thanks,
Dan

mikelfritz

mtune:KBDTIME 20 5 500 %%INS%%

The %%INS%% looks to be spuriuos characters...

You could try manually taking that bit out.

Mike

Dan Kaib

ASKER

Mike,

Thanks for the reply.

The i8042_detection set to -1 did the trick for the keyboard.

The %%INS%% is appended to every parameter in the mtune file so I did not do anything to that file.
I did find a problem in the mtune_d and mtune_p files.
Both had extraneous spaces and/or tabs at the end of the KBDTIME line.
I deleted the extraneous spaces and tabs from the KBDTIME line and the error in the Tunable Parameters was eliminated and KBDTIME was showing as an option.

Thanks for all of your help. I would not have found either solution without your help.

Dan

mikelfritz

Boy, that Santa Cruz Operation is some operation...

Dan Kaib

ASKER

They used to be. The problem is the majority of my customers have been running it for 25 years and the application software that runs on it moves fairly easy to the new SCO6.

Thanks again for all of your help.

Dan

mikelfritz

Me too (sort of), I have a decent handful running on release 5 - none on 6. I've been moving them to Linux and/or AIX.

That's why I still know it...

Nothing like when Doug and Larry ran the joint, they cared for the customers and resellers. Caldera screwed the pooch years ago and Tarantella, the piece the Michels kept, must be defunct by now...

SCO could have been what linux is now if they had had a bit of foresight.

Sad state of affairs for SCO.

Dan Kaib

ASKER

Sometimes the grass isn't greener on the other side and SCO found that out with Caldera.

I have AIX customers and 1 Linux customer too.