Hi,
During the Debian (stable) installation on Macbook pro from 2019,
my internal keyboard is not recognizable even I exhausted all possible keyboard options listed during
dpkg-reconfiguration keyboard-configuration
# more /etc/default/keyboard
# KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION FILE
# Consult the keyboard(5) manual page.
XKBMODEL="apple_laptop"
XKBLAYOUT="us"
XKBVARIANT="dvorak-classic"
XKBOPTIONS="lv3:ralt_alt"
BACKSPACE="guess"
I also triedXKBMODEL="macbook79"
XKBMODEL="macbook78"
XKBMODEL="macintosh"
XKBMODEL="macintosh_old"XKBMODEL="apple"XKBMODEL="applealu_ansi"# dmesg | grep -i keyboard
[ 2.237578] usb 1-1.2: Product: Magic Keyboard
[ 2.464951] usb 1-1.3: Product: USB Keyboard
[ 2.466381] apple 0003:05AC:0267.0002: fixing up Magic Keyboard battery report descriptor
[ 2.466464] apple 0003:05AC:0267.0002: Fn key not found (Apple Wireless Keyboard clone?), disabling Fn key handling
[ 2.466485] input: Apple Inc. Magic Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/0003:05AC:0267.0002/input/input6
[ 2.466530] apple 0003:05AC:0267.0002: input,hiddev0,hidraw1: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Apple Inc. Magic Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:14.0-1.2/input0
[ 2.466686] input: Apple Inc. Magic Keyboard as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.1/0003:05AC:0267.0003/input/input7
[ 2.471679] hid-generic 0003:2109:D101.0005: hiddev1,hidraw2: USB HID v1.10 Device [VIA Labs, Inc. USB Keyboard ] on usb-0000:00:14.0-1.3/input0
[ 2.523233] apple 0003:05AC:0267.0003: input,hiddev2,hidraw3: USB HID v1.10 Keyboard [Apple Inc. Magic Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:14.0-1.2/input1
[ 2.523305] apple 0003:05AC:0267.0004: hiddev3,hidraw4: USB HID v1.10 Device [Apple Inc. Magic Keyboard] on usb-0000:00:14.0-1.2/input2
[ 4.231170] systemd[1]: Starting keyboard-setup.service - Set the console keyboard layout...
I have done a lot of installs on a 2011 iMac, and in my
experience, you need to do it with a wired USB keyboard. After the
install, you can manage the system with any keyboard you can
manage to get working, but for the purposes of installation, the
Debian Installer and the Macintosh together seem to need a wired
USB keyboard.