Solaris guest on Solaris host does not recognize Sun US Unix keyboard

[Thomas Törnblom]

I'm running an OpenSolaris guest (snv_139) in VBox 3.2.0 on an OpenSolaris host (snv_139), using a Sun Ray 2 as the display device.

I have noticed that the Sun US Unix Type 6 keyboard I'm using doesn't seem to be recognized by the guest. Specifically only two (Stop and Again) of the Sun specific keys in the leftmost keypad transmit anything, and they do not transmit the same key codes as on the host.

My main grief is that the Meta keys appear to be handled as Alt, and this is very unfortunate for an avid xemacs user.

I have Meta_R defined as the Host key, so the VBox framework can differentiate between the key codes, but Meta_L, sends the same key codes as Alt_L, as can be seen with "xev".

[Thomas Törnblom]

VBox log file

[Michael Thayer]

You might want to check if this test build from the stable branch (disclaimer here) fixes the alt/meta problem.

The other issue is a bit trickier, as on the one hand I need to know what keysyms those keys (Stop, Again and friends) produce on a Linux host (on Solaris they seem to produce the keysyms F11 to F20, although I don't know if Stop and Again are treated any differently to the "real" F11 and F12 keys by Solaris), and on the other those keys don't actually exist on a PS/2 keyboard, which is what we emulate by default, so we need to support them exclusively using in our new USB keyboard emulation. Which currently just translates the default PS/2 scan codes to USB ones!

[Ramshankar Venkataraman]

Re-open if this is still relevant.

[Thomas Törnblom]

I notice that the Meta keys issue is fixed, thanks!

The other issues are still not fixed.

Would the output of xmodmap -pke help to resolve that?

I don't have any linux system that I can try this on, but perhaps we can cooperate to fix this?

[Thomas Törnblom]

output of "xmodmap -pke" run on the native Solaris Express system on a Sun Ray 2, with a Sun US Unix Type 6 keyboard

[Michael Thayer]

Which keys would you like to see work which don't?

[Michael Thayer]

Again - are we just talking about the eleven keys on the very left of the Sun keyboard?

[Frank Mehnert]

No response, closing.