Subject: Re: hp300 problems
To: Werner Griessl <werner@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
From: David Brownlee <david@mono.org>
List: port-hp300
Date: 01/14/1997 16:45:48
> I installed a netbsd-1.2 on a hp360 and ran into few problems:
>
> 1. The generic kernel works only with an US-Keyboard, not with my
> German keyboard.
>
> Any solutions ?
>
Well it has options for US, UK & Swedish keymaps.
To add a german keymap my guess is you'll need to edit
'/sys/arch/hp300/dev/kbdmap.h' and add the code for your
keyboard, then edit '/sys/arch/hp300/dev/hil_keymaps.c'
and add the mapping (just copy the nearest mapping to
a 'de_{key,shift,ctrl,ctrlshift,string}map'), then edit
your config file & recompile.
Alternatively just modify us_{key,shift,ctrl,ctrlshift,string}map
in '/sys/arch/hp300/dev/hil_keymaps.c' and then recompile.
Either way if you use 'send-pr' to submit the new maps back to
netbsd.org I'm sure someone will add them in for the next
version (and any other German keyboard users out there :)
> 2. I need a Xserver for this machine, because the idea is to use the
> machine as a XTerminal.
>
> Can anybody point me to a (european prefered) location for a
> hp300-X-package for this machine ?
>
I believe people are working on an X11R6 server for NetBSD/hp300,
but I understand they are suffering the usual time starvation
at the moment :/
There is an X11R5 server available at
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/binaries/NetBSD-1.0/hp300/
(Would this be easier to find if it was moved into
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/hp300?)
> please reply directly to me (werner@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de)
> because I'm not member of the list.
>
No problems - its probably worth subscribing to
port-hp300@netbsd.org - its not really a heavily loaded list and
its full of people who can answer hp300 questions :)
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