Re: function key usage switched

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 the mental interface of
Bin Zhang told:

> On 6/15/07, Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> wrote:
>>         Hi!
>>
>>  I recently update from 2.6.18-4-powerpc to 2.6.21-1-powerpc and
>> everything worked pretty well -- except for the function keys.  When I
>> press f1 and f2 it switches the brightness of my screen, f3 to f5
>> address sound value, and so on.  If I want to use a real f1 I now have
>> to press fn-f1.
>>
>>  With 2.6.18 this was the other way round: pressing f1 got through as a
>> real f1, and fn-f1 changed the brightness.  Is there some boot option or
>> the likes with which I can revert to the old behavior?  I don't
>> regularly use the function keys for their special meaning but instead
>> use them as shortcuts.
>>
>
> pbbuttonsd can set this for you.
> In /etc/pbbuttonsd.conf, section [MODULE PMAC], there is a line
> KBDMode               = ....
>
>
> Best regards,
> Bin
>
>>  I'm having a PowerBook G4, if that's of any matter.  Any help would be
>> truly appreciated.  I did look through the diff of /boot/config-* but
>> didn't find anything that raised my closer interrest.

I am booting with append="hid.pb_fnmode=2"

Ciao

Elimar


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