Re: DEC Keyboard Question

From: Christoph Gartmann (gartmann_at_non.immunbio.mpg.de.sens)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:57:58 +0000 (UTC)

In article <ct94qj$n7v$1@news01.intel.com>, Ken Fairfield <my.full.name@intel.com> writes:
>Christoph Gartmann wrote:
>
>> In article <tTNJd.6603$wy5.240@news.cpqcorp.net>, "FredK" <fred.nospam@nospam.dec.com> writes:
>[...]
>>>VMS will poll the KB when the driver is reset to force a powerup sequence
>>>as well. But if no KB is there, the sequence may never complete.
>>
>>
>> So if I could tell the KVM to send 0xAA to the Alpha this should force the
>> Alpha to start the keyboard negotiation?
>
>Is that possible? Does the Rose ServeView+ that you've written
>about allow you to program a sequence to be sent to the host?

I don't know but I sent an e-mail to Rose Electronics to ask just that. The KVM
has a key combination to "reset" the mouse and there is one send some "zero"
code. So it might be possible that there are others. I'll let you know what
they will tell me.

Regards,
   Christoph Gartmann 

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