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Matthew Young

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Registered: 2024-03-23

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Apple Magic Keyboard

I am trying to connect a apple magic keyboard to my arch linux system but even though it is connected, the keys on it do not work. I presume this is a driver problem because when I was on linux mint I had to install drivers to get it to work. I saw that there was a post on the arch wiki for connecting apple magic keyboards but the section on drivers was outdated and the package it told to install in that section was no longer there. Do any of you know how to install the necessary drivers for arch?

seth

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Re: Apple Magic Keyboard

If you're talking about https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Apple_ … _hid-apple - that does not address "keys don't work at all", but "I don't like the layout of this keyboard and should maybe have bought a regular one".

Does the device show up in "sudo libinput list-devices" and does it produce events in "sudo libinput debug-events"?
Otherwise, how do you gage "is connected"?

nb. that there seems some problem w/ bluez 5.73, you might want to try to downgrade that to the last 5.72 package.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux_Archive

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