I figured out the solution last night. In frustration, I went to the keyboard pane in preferences. One of the options was to use function keys as regular function keys. I check the box, and guess what, all of the function keys worked as function keys. Problem solved.
Tom . On Feb 11, 2012, at 8:19 AM, Frank Tom wrote: > My friend just bought a 21.5 inch I Mac with extended USB keyboard. In key > describer mode, the f1 through f4 and F7 and F8 keys do not work. Is there > a special key combination to enable these function keys or did he just get a > bad keyboard? > > Thanks. > > Tom Frank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
