[53711] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Case 199897: 4-237
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Broderick)
Sun Feb 4 15:38:07 2001
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Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 15:33:47 -0500
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From: Dave Broderick <djbroder@MIT.EDU>
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Volume 2 (I hope you all got my first message)
I came in today (Sunday) not really to work, but to pickup a book I needed. (Sorry, I was sick on Friday)
I decided to take a minute to label the Athena station with the SUN keyboard map, figuring it would only take a minute.
Well, I found two things: The wiring in the area of the interfaces had been messed with since Alan and I last worked on it, and the mouse didn't work with the SUN. (The Kbd and Mouse worked with the SGI, and the Kbd worked with the Sun) I rebooted the Sun, but it didn't help. Unfortunately, I could not get to the back of the Sun to check the mouse connection. I can't do this on a Sunday. I did not have the tamper-proof security tools.
Now, someone's having ripped the interface out of its mooring may have nothing to do with the Sun mouse not working, but it's sympomatic of what we're up against here.
Somebody try this:
Undo the cabinetry (again!) and check the kbd and mouse connects at the Sun. Restart the Sun. I strongly suspect that all will work fine. The SGI has been fine all along.
David J. Broderick
<bold><color><param>0000,0000,ffff</param>djbroder@mit.edu
</color></bold> Senior Audio Visual Specialist
MIT AV 617 <bold>253 2808
</bold> FAX 617 253 5945
http://web.mit.edu/djbroder/www
