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SERVSWITCH™ WIZARD MP
4.2.11 S
ETTING THE
D
EFAULT
S
UN
K
EYBOARD
T
YPE FOR
S
UN
CPU
S
The ServSwitch Wizard MP interrogates any attached Sun keyboard to find out its
country-code and keyboard-type settings; this information is then transmitted back
to any attached Sun CPUs. The CPUs will then produce different characters in
response to certain keycodes, depending on what the key layout of that type of
keyboard is supposed to be. If you don’t have a Sun keyboard attached, the Wizard
MP can tell any attached Sun CPUs that the keyboard type is either “UK” or
“UNIX/US.”
D1
Default Sun keyboard type is “UK”
D2
Default Sun keyboard type is “UNIX/US” (default)
4.2.12 E
NABLING
/D
ISABLING
S
WITCHING
U
SING THE
S
UN
K
EYBOARD
’
S
“H
OT
M
EDIA
” K
EYS
Sun keyboards have four “hot media” keys in their upper right-hand corners. If
these keys aren’t being used by any applications running on your Sun CPUs, you
can set the ServSwitch Wizard MP to interpret them as single-keystroke channel-
switching commands instead. In this setting, you can press the [Mute] key to have
the Wizard MP switch to channel 1; the [Volume –] key to switch to channel 2, the
[] key to switch to channel 3, and the [Power] key to switch to channel 4.
While the Wizard MP is using the “hot media” keys this way, the keystrokes won’t
be passed through to the attached CPUs.
S1
Enable switching with “hot media” keys (default)
S2
Disable switching with “hot media” keys and pass the keystrokes through
4.2.13 R
EMAPPING THE
S
UN
K
EYBOARD TO
P
RODUCE THE
“£” C
HARACTER
The ServSwitch Wizard MP is always remapping the attached keyboard in cross-
platform applications (see
Section 5.6
). Sometimes users in Britain and in the
financial-services industries also need to generate the extended-ASCII “£” (librum)
character that stands for pounds sterling, but this is difficult to do on either a Sun
or PC keyboard. You can set the ServSwitch Wizard MP to cause an attached Sun
keyboard to generate this character instead of “#” when you press [Shift] and [3]
together. (The Wizard MP does this by substituting the [Compose][L][–]
keystroke sequence—the normal method of generating this character on a Sun
keyboard—for [Shift][3].)
S3
Enable [Shift][3] remapping
S4
Disable [Shift][3] remapping (default)
