Using a Keyboard/Monitor switch with DEC AlphaStation

["Eric Brown" <ericbr gte net>]

I'm trying to set up RedHat 5.2 on a DEC AlphaStation 200.  However, when 
I connect the AlphaStation to my monitor switch (a Rose ServeView 4), the
keyboard doesn't work quite right when booting from SRM (in particular, 
the backslash/pipe key doesn't work), and the keyboard doesn't work at 
*all* when booting into MILO (e.g., the caps lock generates an 'm',
the 'a' key generates a 2).  The Alpha appears to work OK when connected
to a real keyboard, but I don't have the space for two keyboards.

(The mouse and monitor functions work just great, by the way.)

Now, the switch works *fine* with the other three x86 machines; is there
any way to get the Alpha to work, or am I going to have to use a serial
console?

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