usb/144414: Apple "Fn" key doesn't work properly

Steven Noonan steven at uplinklabs.net
Wed Mar 3 03:40:02 UTC 2010


The following reply was made to PR usb/144414; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net>
To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net>
Cc: freebsd-usb at freebsd.org, freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: usb/144414: Apple "Fn" key doesn't work properly
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 19:35:38 -0800

 On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Steven Noonan <steven at uplinklabs.net> wrote:
 > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky at c2i.net> wrote:
 >> On Tuesday 02 March 2010 08:59:18 Steven Noonan wrote:
 >>> usb/144414
 >>>
 >>
 >> Please try the following patch:
 >>
 >> http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=175283
 >>
 >> Thanks for dumping the HID descriptors.
 >>
 >> --HPS
 >>
 >
 > I tried the patch (and included rev 175284's bugfix). No luck, it
 > still doesn't behave as expected. Here's the dmesg output for
 > Fn+Backspace:
 >
 > ukbd_intr_callback:547: actlen=8 bytes
 > ukbd_intr_callback:590: apple_eject=0 apple_fn=0
 > ukbd_intr_callback:597: [5] = 1
 > ukbd_put_key:312: 0x01 (1) pressed
 > ukbd_intr_callback:547: actlen=8 bytes
 > ukbd_intr_callback:590: apple_eject=0 apple_fn=0
 > ukbd_intr_callback:597: [0] = 42
 > ukbd_intr_callback:597: [5] = 1
 > ukbd_put_key:312: 0x2a (42) pressed
 > ukbd_intr_callback:547: actlen=8 bytes
 > ukbd_intr_callback:590: apple_eject=0 apple_fn=0
 > ukbd_intr_callback:597: [5] = 1
 > ukbd_put_key:312: 0x42a (1066) released
 > ukbd_intr_callback:547: actlen=8 bytes
 > ukbd_intr_callback:590: apple_eject=0 apple_fn=0
 > ukbd_put_key:312: 0x401 (1025) released
 >
 > - Steven
 >
 
 I just noticed that it does say "Found Apple FN-key" in dmesg, though.
 So it does detect it, but it's still not finding it when it's actually
 pressed.
 
 - Steven


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