Installation guide

CHAPTER 4: Operation: Hardware and Keyboard Commands

4.3.6 T

RANSPOSE

OMMAND AND

EYS

This command is designed to make life easier for people used to the Sun or Mac

keyboard who now need to use a Windows 95/Windows 98 style (104/105-key) PC

type shared keyboard, or vice versa. In the ServSwitch Ultra’s default setting, the

Start and Alt (“Alt” or “Alt/Alt Graph”) keys on the Win95/Win98 keyboard map

to the Command and Alt (“Alt”, “Option [Alt]”, or “Alt Graph”) keys respectively

on the Sun and Mac keyboards, even though the Win95/Win98 Start and Alt keys

are reversed (“backwards”) with respect to the Sun and Mac Command and Alt

keys.

Many people who have grown used to typing or triggering an application’s

functions with “the other” type of keyboard find it difficult to adjust to this reversal.

If you don’t want to adjust, you don’t have to; use this command to have the Switch

transpose (swap) the scan codes of these keys when it does its keyboard mapping,

so that when you press the Alt key, the Switch sends the corresponding Command

or Start scan code to the selected CPU instead, and when you press the Command

or Start key, the Switch sends the Alt scan code instead.

To issue the Transpose Command and Alt Keys command,

press and release the

left Control key, then type [B]. (Reissue this command to switch back to the

standard mapping.) Enter the Keep Settings command after you enter this

command.

4.3.7 R

ESET

This command, along with the commands described in the next two sections, can

come in handy when certain problems arise. It will reboot your keyboard and

mouse without your having to power down the station or the system, and will also

re-enable PS/2 mouse communication if the selected CPU has previously disabled

it. (With current PCs and operating systems, this command shouldn’t be necessary,

but older CPUs running DOS or Windows might need it from time to time.) Issue

this command if (a) your keyboard gets stuck or begins behaving oddly, (b) you

need to send mouse data to the CPU, but it hasn’t enabled the mouse (this can

happen if you boot up the CPU while the ServSwitch Ultra is off or disconnected),

or (c) while using a PS/2 type mouse, you unplug it, plug it back in, then have

problems. To issue the Reset command, press and release the left [Ctrl] key, then

type [R].

If you’re using a PS/2 type mouse with a DOS or Windows 3.x CPU, don’t issue

this command if the CPU doesn’t have a mouse driver loaded—many such CPUs

will crash if you send them unexpected mouse data. (CPUs running UNIX or

Windows 95, 98, or NT don’t have this problem.) If your shared CPU is like this,

and you have chronic problems when you try to run applications that don’t use the