The nice apple alu keyboards with numpads are pretty much unusable in vanilla 2.6.25. (http://images.apple.com/keyboard/images/gallery/wired_1_20070813.jpg) Hitting the 'clear' key (=numlock) disables the numpad, and maps multiple alphanumeric keys to numpad symbols in typical laptopkeyboard fashion. Furthermore, some of the F-keys do double duty as multimedia keys. The vanilla kernel defaults to multimedia keys, requiring the user to hit the 'fn' key to get F-key events. I use F-keys more often than multimedia keys, so I included the patch to change the default to be F-keys. The following patch is taken from: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mactel-support/+bug/201887 and appears to have been written by Eric Johney. I have merely lifted the two patches from the webpage above and submitted it, as I couldn't see it upstream after a brief search. Tested-by: dag@xxxxxxxxx --- linux-2.6.25-gentoo/drivers/hid/hid-input.c 2008-04-17 04:49:44.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r1-apple/drivers/hid/hid-input.c 2008-04-25 23:07:52.925613698 +0200 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ #include <linux/hid.h> #include <linux/hid-debug.h> -static int hid_apple_fnmode = 1; +static int hid_apple_fnmode = 2; module_param_named(pb_fnmode, hid_apple_fnmode, int, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(pb_fnmode, "Mode of fn key on Apple keyboards (0 = disabled, 1 = fkeyslast, 2 = fkeysfirst)"); @@ -218,8 +218,9 @@ } } - if (test_bit(usage->code, hid->pb_pressed_numlock) || - test_bit(LED_NUML, input->led)) { + if ((test_bit(usage->code, hid->pb_pressed_numlock) || + test_bit(LED_NUML, input->led)) && + (hid->product < 0x220 ||hid->product >= 0x300)) { trans = find_translation(powerbook_numlock_keys, usage->code); if (trans) { For "completeness" and the benfit of someone finding this in an archive later, the following 4 commands provides correct keys for the multimediakeys in X: setxkbmap -model macintosh xmodmap -e "keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay" xmodmap -e "keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext" xmodmap -e "keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev" Works with a US layout keyboard, anyway. Regards, Dag B. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
