Hi On Fri, May 08, 2009 at 01:07:21PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > * Gerfried Fuchs <rho...@deb.at> [2009-04-28 14:30:09 CEST]: > > * Gerfried Fuchs <rho...@deb.at> [2009-04-20 12:07:24 CEST]: > > > Version: 2.6.29-2 > > > * Gerfried Fuchs <rho...@debian.at> [2009-03-30 17:42:39 CEST]: > > > > Upgrading to 2.6.29-1 did cause several problems: > > > > > > > > - The keyboard didn't react to any key pressed > > > > - An external usb keyboard didn't react to any key pressed neither > > > > - external mouse did receive power (optical red light was there) but > > > > cursor didn't move > > I seem to have found a culprit somehow but don't know where it comes > from. 2.6.29 has hid_apple but that module failed to load for me. > modprobe -v told me that it tries to "insmod /lib/.../hid.ko pb_fnmode=2" > but that module doesn't like that parameter so it fails. > > Now I'm wondering where that might come from. And strangely it seems to > have hooked itself into /etc/yaboot.conf: > > append="hid.pb_fnmode=2" > > Now I wonder > a.) how it actually ended up in there (though, not really that > interesting), but rather > b.) what the correct append option for 2.6.29 would be to switch to. I > do want to have my function keys work as normal function keys and not > have to press the fn additionally to get that.a
This is now the fnmode parameter of the hid-apple module. You can either set it by writing to /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode or by appending hid-apple.fnmode=2 (or probably hid_apple.fnmode=2). I only tested that writing to the sysfs file works, but appending to the kernel command line should work too. A third option is to create a file /etc/modprobe.d/hid-apple.conf which contains the line "option hid-apple fnmode=2". Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
