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SERVMANAGERS
4.1.2 M
OUSE AND
K
EYBOARD
When you power up your ServManager system, make sure that your CPUs,
mouse (mice), and keyboard(s) are properly cabled to the ServManager (or to
the appropriate master or submaster unit). When you boot up the CPUs, the
ServManager(s) and/or submasters to which they are connected should
already be ON. Unless it’s absolutely necessary, don’t disconnect and
reconnect a mouse or keyboard from a ServManager while the ServManager is
ON; if you
have
to do this, issue the Reset command (
[CTRL] R
—see
Section
4.3.10
) after you reconnect the mouse or keyboard.
Though the ServManager can convert any supported keyboard or mouse
protocol to any other, this is not enough to overcome all of the vast
differences between input devices. If all of your CPUs are of the same type, we
recommend that you use the corresponding type of keyboard and mouse. If
your CPUs are of different types, certain limitations tend to favor the use of
certain keyboard and mouse types:
Standard PC keyboards have 101 keys; standard Apple keyboards have 105
keys; and standard (Type 5 or higher) Sun keyboards have 118 keys as well as
keyclick and beep features. We have mapped several of the “extra” Apple and
Sun keys to the PC keyboard (see Table 4-1 on page 32), but many of the Sun
keys simply cannot be mapped to IBM or Apple keyboards. Similarly, standard
Apple mice have one button; standard PC mice have two or three buttons;
and standard Sun mice have three buttons. At this time there is no way for a
one- or two-button mouse attached to the ServManager to emulate a mouse
with more buttons.
For these reasons, we recommend that you use Sun Type 5 or higher
keyboards and Sun mice for mixed-platform applications that include Sun
CPUs. For applications that include IBM and Apple CPUs but no Sun CPUs,
we recommend that you use IBM keyboards and mice, because the IBM
keyboard can emulate all of the Apple keyboard functions, but the one-button
Apple mouse simply can’t effectively operate IBM applications that lean
heavily on the center or right mouse button.
Other concerns:
• The ServManager supports a variety of IBM PC type mice; for more
details, see
Section 4.3.6
.
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