getting the aluminium apple keyboard working

markp1989 · 2009-01-25 18:16:35

i just brought a aluminium apple keyboard (i dont have a mac but the keyboard looks nice)

im able to get it to work in ubuntu fine. but im having trouble in arch.

i have done every thing covered here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apple_Keyboard

and added the following to my xorg.conf

# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Wed Oct  1 15:13:37 PDT 2008

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 1.0  (buildmeister@builder58)  Wed Oct  1 15:12:53 PDT 2008

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load           "dbe"
    Load           "extmod"
    Load           "freetype"
    Load           "glx"
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
    Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

#Section "InputDevice"
#    # generated from default
#    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
#    Driver         "kbd"
#    Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
#EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "HSD Hanns.G HW173"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     55.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS" 
#Option "RandRRotation" "Off"
#Option "Rotate" "CW"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 6200"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option    "nologo" "true"
    Option         "TwinView" "1"
    Option         "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, CRT-1: nvidia-auto-select +1440+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

#Section "Extensions"
#    Option "Composite" "Enable"
#EndSection

but so far its not working, im sure i probably need a module loaded. but im not sure which one?

thanks markp1989

markp1989 · 2009-01-25 20:08:18

sorted it need to load these 4 modules . on boot.

hid_apple
hid
usbhid
usbcore

litemotiv · 2009-01-25 21:48:12

if you add usbinput to the Hooks line of your mkinitcpio.conf and rebuild your initramfs you won't have to load those modules manually. it will also give you access to it earlier in the boot process which could be useful in case of (serious) problems.

markp1989 · 2009-01-25 23:33:12

one other question, i cannot get keys f1-f6 to work.

i tried

echo 2 > /sys/module/hid/parameters/pb_fnmode

as instructed in the wiki.

but i get the following error

[mark@markspc ~]$ echo 2 > /sys/module/hid/parameters/pb_fnmode 
bash: /sys/module/hid/parameters/pb_fnmode: No such file or directory
[mark@markspc ~]$

how do i sort this out?

thanks markp1989

litemotiv · 2009-01-26 00:58:32

Yes that path changed in kernel .28, the wiki hasn't been updated yet. here is more information on the subject:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12815

markp1989 · 2009-01-26 11:23:31

thanks, that worked fine. for any one else the new code is

echo 2 > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode

simoo · 2009-01-26 19:25:09

I have an encrypted setup using LUKS and Just thought I'd mention that the 'hid_apple' module is not autoloaded. It used to work fine but now I have to specifically enter it in '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf' eg.

#
MODULES="pata_acpi pata_via ata_generic scsi_mod sata_promise sata_via usbhid uhci_hcd ehci_hcd hid_apple"
#

This happened after an update to the 2.6.28-ARCH kernel.

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#1 2009-01-25 18:16:35

getting the aluminium apple keyboard working

#2 2009-01-25 20:08:18

Re: getting the aluminium apple keyboard working

#3 2009-01-25 21:48:12

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#4 2009-01-25 23:33:12

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#5 2009-01-26 00:58:32

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#6 2009-01-26 11:23:31

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