On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 the mental interface of Jiri Kosina told: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > > > it would be great, if we can choose pb_fnmode while configure the > > kernel. I have a PowerBook5,6 but want fkeysfirst. So I have to # echo 2 > > >| /sys/module/hid/parameters/pb_fnmode by hand after each boot. The > > module-parm pb_fnmode doesn't work either in /etc/modules nor in a > > modprobe instruction while boot. An modprobe -r usb-hid hid; sleep 2; > > modprobe hid pb_fnmode=2; modprobe usb-hid works on a fresh booted > > machine. Else module-parm isn't available with a built-in hid, though. > > Hi Elimar, > > sorry, but I don't seem to understand your problem. There are two > situations - either you have hid bultin in kernel, or compiled as a > module. In the first case, you simply modify the kernel boot commandline > to contain a string > > hid.pb_fnmode=2
This works fine, thanks ;) > and that's it. In the latter case, you add something like > > options hid pb_fnmode=2 > > into the /etc/modprobe.conf file (or you can use any distro-specific way > to pass parameters to modules, such as /etc/modprobe.d). This is standard > way to do things, and it works also with hid. Hmmm, I've had "options hid pb_fnmode=2" in /etc/modprobe.d/hid, which did not work. But "options hid pb_fnmode=2" in /etc/modprobe.conf works well ;) > I don't think there is a need to have this as a separate kernel > configuration option. Thanks, sorry for the noise. Elimar -- Do you smell something burning or ist it me? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
