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SERVSWITCH™ AND SERVSWITCH ULTRA™
4.3.12 T
RANSPOSE
C
OMMAND AND
A
LT
K
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’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.
4.3.13 R
ESET
This command, along with the two commands described in the next two sections,
comes in handy when certain problems arise. It will reset or refresh your shared
equipment. Issue it if (a) your shared keyboard or mouse gets stuck or begins
behaving oddly, (b) you need to send mouse data to a CPU that hasn’t enabled the
mouse (this can happen if you boot up the CPU while the ServSwitch is off or
disconnected)
. To issue the Reset command, press and release the left Control key,
then type [R].
If you’re using a PS/2 type mouse, don’t issue this command to a CPU that
doesn’t have a mouse driver loaded. Many CPUs will crash if you send them
unexpected mouse data.