From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Embedded Function Keys on Powerbook? From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Matthias Grimm Cc: LinuxPPC Mailingliste In-Reply-To: <3C2080DC.7080307@cymes.de> References: <3C2080DC.7080307@cymes.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 19 Dec 2001 17:16:50 +0100 Message-Id: <1008778610.8309.36.camel@pismo> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 12:58, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > Hi, > I use the Kernel 2.4.16-benh on an Apple Powerbook G3 (Pismo). > > The Powerbooks have special keys for brightness, volume, mute, etc > in parallel to the funcion keys F1 to F6. Per default this special keys > are the primary keys and the Function-Keys (together with the Fn-key) > build the secondary keys. > > The Mac-OS 9 has a checkbox in the Function-Key-Dialog to "invert" the > Fn-key. Cecked, the Function-Keys are the primary keys and the special > keys work together with Fn. > > Question: Has this function already been implemented in the Kernel? > I found something about the Button-Device in the keyboard > driver. Is this a feature of the Button-Device? > > Also interesting is: When I had checked the checkbox under Mac-OS, the > setting survived all reboots and also with Linux the F1-F6 keys worked > without the Fn-key. But after the machine once awaked from sleep (after > reopen the lid or similar) the setting is resetted to default. > > Has anyone information about this feature? A utility/hack for this was posted to the debian-powerpc list a while ago. It's called fnset IIRC. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/