Hi there, Many thanks, now i've got the volume working! Yes, I had to press the FN key as well as F11 to turn down and F12 to turn up the volume. I used keyboard practice to find the FN key. No it was definitly not placed where I expected it. All the best and thanks, Christian
On 2007-12-09 at 14:24 Thuy wrote: >Hi Christian. Don't know if this might help you? Haven't been able to >follow the thread completely so maybe this has already been suggested. >When I went into the Apple shop to try out some stuff, I found that >the new keyboards had a totally different layout. The fn key isn't >where it is on a laptop i.e bottom left, instead it is in the numpad >block, can't remember exactly which one it was, but it certainly >didn't seem to be in a very intuitive place for me. I think it was >something like second one down from the top left? I think your volume >controls are hardwired into fn plus the function keys 10-12. See if >you can get someone to confirm where the fn key is precisely and try >the combination. I don't think you can change the behaviour of the >functions from within the keyboard preferences pane because the new >ones seem to be hardwired. I have the 'use function keys' setting on >in the preferences on the macbook pro, and the internal keyboard >behaves as it should, but the new wireless still has the default >behaviour. The wireless one isn't the same layout as the fixed >alluminum keyboard and is more like a laptop style with slight >differences. The volume on the wireless is fn plus f10-12 with fnf10 >being mute, fnf11 =vol down and fnf12 = vol up. Whereas of course the >volume controls on the macbook keyboard is fn and f3-5. Hope this is >of some help. > >Cheers > >Thuy > >On 08/12/2007, Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Esther, >> Many thanks for your reply. >> I've installed all updates now for Leopard and everything seem to be ok >now. >> I can now shut down the computer and it takes just a few seconds. >> But the F10, F11 and F12 keys don't work. I cannot turn down or up the >> volume. I have to do it through the sounds preferences. >> Many thanks, >> Christian >> >> >> >> On 2007-12-07 at 16:38 Esther wrote: >> >> >Christian, >> > >> >Just a quick note that all those software updates for the >> >Aluminum Keyboard were for OS 10.4 (Tiger), as you >> >can tell from the dates (a month or more before the >> >Leopard release). I don't know whether there is a software >> >update for the keyboards under Leopard, but those >> >sure sound like all the problems you were having --- >> >inability to log out and trouble with the function key >> >behavior. If you have another, older keyboard, you could >> >always see whether the problems disappear when you >> >switch keyboards. And if the Tiger software updates >> >aren't applicable now that you've done a clean install >> >for Leopard, you could always try plugging the new >> >keyboard in to a USB hub, instead of connecting it >> >directly to your iMac. That seemed to fix shutdown problems >> >for some people. >> > >> >Cheers, >> > >> >Esther >> >> >> >> >>
