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Re: status of fn-key.patch for 2.6.14



Jochen Voss wrote:
> Hello Yves-Alexis,
> 
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:48:45PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 
>>as some people now, the fn-key.patch [0] for powerbooks doesnt work with
>>2.6.14 kernels. I've seen some threads here with people trying to
>>correct this patch. Is there any progress ?
> 
> 
> Marc-Christian Petersen sent me a patch for inclusion on my powerbook
> page.  I did not yet find time to try it, but I append it to this email
> so you can have a go.
> 
> As far as I understand it, it disables the new (and not yet supported)
> 2.6.14 mechanism and reenables the old patch instead.  As soon as the
> console keyboard utilities and the X-Server support the new mechanism,
> the patch will probably no longer be necessary.
> 
> I hope this helps,
> Jochen

I just built another (patched) kernel, and it seems that Fn key still
isnt recognized, xev doenst show anything. I'll investigate a bit more

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Yves-Alexis Perez

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