Doug, you are correct. My ULTRA 1 has a
"funny" 25 pin sized connector with 13 pins. My mouse plugs into the
keyboard.
If I could get the terminal to work thru
the kvm switch it would not be too bad to have a second keyboard and mouse
on my desk.
I can use VNCviewer if necessary, but I would
prefer a "real" connection.
Is there an adaptor between kvm and the "funny"
terminal? What is it called?
Ken
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 12:40
PM
Subject: WLUG..KVM...Sun keyb/mouse, old
and new
I get WLUG in digest (usually noon time).
I see
some answers on Sun KVM but I think they do NOT tell you that....
a)
OLD sun monitors have that funny DB25-shaped connector,
and
matching/old-style video adapter cards/mboard.
there ARE
"adapter/converter" gizmos in both directions. I think I have
one at home,
I should junk the ultra10 (style "b" below) that I don't use.
I forget
which adapter I have (for old sun and newer VGA; or newer sun and oldSun
Monitor).
b) NEWER sun's e.g. ultraNN (i think Ultra1 is in the
OLD camp above)
have:
"new" VGA
style adapter, works with any VGA monitor
BUT: "OLD" sun
keyboard is still required unless you are going headless
(on the Sun,
at BOOTup powerup time, if keyboard is detected,
Sun boots in
normal/console mode; if NOT detected, it considers /dev/ttya as serial console
)
The sun keyboard is totally incompatible as far as I
know.
compare the DIN pins to the DIN pins on a PS/2 keyboard(or
mouse).
and the sun MOUSE is attached to the sun KEYBOARD, which rather
proves the imcompatible point.
Though you could just do the "V" portion
thru a KVM, maybe, with 2 keybds on your
desk.