[rescue] Yeah, it was an old post (Sun keyboards / Mac), but....

[vraptor at employees.org]

You might try opening up the mouse and seeing if you can find
out what company OEM'd them--there's a number of 3 button mice
available.  Most common under OS 9 was Logitech--their driver
might work.  I dunno if they have a driver for OS X.  You
might also look at the Macally web site.  They have a number
of different mice products, some with 3 buttons, some with
3 buttons + scroll wheel.

As to the keyboard...you might take a stroll through the Apple
K-base to see if there is any info on key remapping under OS X
w/out drivers--I mean it is *UNIX* under there after all...
(I'm sure you could hack up something to work with it and the
mouse under X Darwin using xmodmap--the issue is getting something
working with Aqua.)

=Nadine=

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Daniel Hinder wrote:

>.... I came into a pile of Sun Ray 1 systems and tried out the Type 6
>keyboards with systems running classic and OS X, on blue and white g3s
>(upped to g4s) and on a Pismo series laptop.
>
>They like the mice- though the mac doesn't seem to know what to do with the
>middle button and doesn't use the right in classic.  The keyboard works,
>though 9 and X interpret the layout differently, everything seems to Just
>Work.  Heck, the little moon key even does the power on/off thing. :D
>
>My only issue is primarily cosmetic- the Mac in general sneezes at the extra
>keys on the board.  9 thinks they're function keys, X thinks they're A (that
>left row) and s/d/f (the volume and brightness adjustments next to the moon
>key), compose is dead... and I've scoured the net to see if there's a damned
>keyboard map or driver available in order to use Sun keyboards on Macs to
>their fullest extent.  I'm curious if anyone who responded to your post
>mentioned anything of the sort?
>
>
>==
>
>Daniel Hinder
>Web and Graphic Designer
>www.secretaboutbox.com/solios
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