Ultra 20 questions.

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I have a couple of minor issues that I would appreciate some help with.

Firstly, the following warning is displayed when the system is booted:

WARNING: No usable keyboard alias!

The keyboard is a Sun UNIX Style Keyboard, that was purchased with the

Ultra 20 and works fine.

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Is that an USB keyboard?

And the keyboard works as a console keyboard, although the warning

is printed?

(you may want to check if the system's bios has a setup option to enable

"USB legacy support" or "USB keyboard support" or similar).

See also Bug 6212827

<a href="http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6212827" target="_blank"> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6 212827</a>

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Secondly, again during bootup, the following is written to /var/adm/messages:

NOTICE: IRQ20 is being shared by drivers with different interrupt levels.

This may result in reduced system performance.

I am not sure what is causing this because it is a base model with no PCI cards, Sun or otherwise, installed.

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Some PCI devices share an interrupt line. Although you do not have

PCI plugin cards, the system most likely has lots of integrated PCI devices

(USB controllers, audio, a NIC, firewire controllers, ...).

There's nothing you can do about the shared pci interrupt (with PCI

plugin cards you could move the card to a different PCI slot; apparently

you can't with PCI devices integrated on the mainboard).

jkeil at 2007-7-5 14:07:58 >

I've used a Type 6 USB keyboard ( UNIX 320-1273 ) on a Ultra 20 straight out of the crate and I didn't have any issues. There should be a yellow system record sheet that came with the system, it will state which options are included, I think the keyboard that comes with the system is a PC type ( 320-1271 ). Make a call to support, the system is currently under warranty and if there are issues support will get it sorted quicker than using this forum.

mlennon at 2007-7-5 14:07:58 >

Hello,

I have exactly the same problem.

We a new Ultra 20 Worksation with the original sun keyboard.

Same message: "no usable keyboard alias". In the BIOS the usb keyboard is enabled. I also tried the workarounds of the link

<a href="http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6212827" target="_blank"> http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6 212827</a>

but they did not help.

The main problem actually is, that the "eeprom" process uses 97% of the cpu.

eeprom root 99,2 cpu%

/usr/platform/i86pc/eeprom kbd/type

merkury at 2007-7-5 14:07:58 >