Re: RFE: Switch usbhid.pb_fnmode to 2 for Macbook Pro users

2007-09-27 Thread Dave Jones 
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

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Re: RFE: Switch usbhid.pb_fnmode to 2 for Macbook Pro users

2007-09-27 Thread Jarod Wilson 
Dave Jones wrote:
 On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:11:38PM +0100, Christopher Brown wrote:
   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.

Just as an fyi, this is also the case on my 2+ year old PowerBook G4.
And I'm pretty sure it was also the case on the iBook I had prior to
that, which I got roughly 5 years ago.

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