MIT Sparc X server and keyboard indicators

Guy Harris guy at auspex.auspex.com
Fri Apr 26 04:22:18 AEST 1991


>>For example, pressing the CAPS LOCK key does not cause the
>>appropriate indicator light to be turned on. 
>
>Yeah, this is a true bummer. Just Another bug in X11R4, oh well.

Bug?  It'd have been a little difficult to "fix" that "bug", given that
when X11R4 came out, SunOS 4.1 wasn't out yet, which means that the
keyboard driver (except possibly on the 386i) didn't support the "ioctl"
call to turn the LEDs on and off.

>I complained about the same thing (and other things as well) and was given
>the good piece of advice to use the openwindows server instead of X.

I suspect the OW server doesn't run the indicator lights when run under
SunOS 4.0[.x]; if it does, I'll be *extremely* surprised (unless OW
comes with a modified version of the keyboard driver).



More information about the Comp.unix.internals mailing list