Bug#307327: kernel-source-2.6.11: [powerpc] fn-key does not work on new powerbooks

[Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>]

Le samedi 13 août 2005 à 07:54 +0100, Jochen Voss a écrit :

> > The only (big) downside is that the FN keycode will not be understood by
> > the classic X keyboard driver (no events in xev for example), unless the
> > new (and not upstream yet) input based X keyboard driver is used.
> 
> What about the Linux console? "dumpkeys -l | grep -i fn" gives no output
> at all.  Will be also need a patched version of console-tools?

I have no idea on this matter. showkey seems to recognize the Fn key as
a suite of keycodes (escape something ?), but I have no idea if this can
be assigned to a modifier key under the console.

Stelian.
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