On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:11:38PM +0100, Christopher Brown wrote:

Hello,

It would appear Macbook Pro users need to additionally press the fn key to make F1 - F10 work as expected under Linux. Therefore to switch to a vt they have to perform a wierd kind of hand twister to get it to work as it now requires Ctrl+Alt+Fn+F1. Macbook user Alexey Kuznetsov wrote to me and said:

To solve this problem i send echo "2" to /sys/module/hid/parameters/pb_fnmode every time on boot. But i this is a good idea to set this feature by default for all fedora 7 users.

I solve it by small startup service here is ti:

#!/bin/bash # # chkconfig: 12345 90 01 # description: fix apple fn keys

. /etc/init.d/functions

echo "2">/sys/module/hid/parameters/pb_fnmode

action "Starting the Mac Function keys fix:"

to which I replied:

" ... you can also just add:

options usbhid pb_fnmode=2

to modprobe.conf

and I think:

usbhid.pb_fnmode=2

being added to the kernel parameters as well. I will post an RFE to the fedora-kernel list."

Is it possible to enable this by default - the green lizards seem to have done so:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=220266

I wonder why its not the default already. Seems Novell didn't push that change upstream in the last year either. I'd suggest bringing this up on the linux-usb-devel@lists.sf.net list. Perhaps someone responsible for the hid code will be able to give you an answer as to why this change hasn't happened.

Dave