Comments on: Fixing the function keys on the Apple Keyboard in Ubuntu

By: Samuel Huckins

Samuel Huckins — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:40:04 +0000

@Marco Thanks very much! I’ve updated the post with your tip.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:19:38 +0000

Good info.
Remember if you boot more than one kernel (for example if you have the RT kernels from ubuntustudio and the stock kernels from ubuntu) to actually update every initramfs.

1	sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

By: Brooks

Brooks — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:09:35 +0000

Nice! thanks for the post

By: James

James — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:42:36 +0000

Thanks so much for posting this.

By: Elidia Stemm

Elidia Stemm — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:53:26 +0000

[..] A bit unrelated, but I absolutely liked this blog post [..]

By: Amadeus de Koning

Amadeus de Koning — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:30:03 +0000

The last option worked for me (adding echo 2 > /sys/module/hid_apple/parameters/fnmode to /etc/rc.local). Now my aluminum keyboard is working perfectly.

Thanks!

By: akahige

akahige — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:56:47 +0000

Samuel … just wanted to say thanks for writing this up.

The second of the options — hid_apple — works perfectly on Ubuntu Karmic.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:28:22 +0000

@Samuel, turns out its done in the preferences>keyboard and mouse… Told you I was a noob!

Thanks for your help anyway.

Toodles

Alex

By: Samuel Huckins

Samuel Huckins — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:05:07 +0000

@Alex Yeah, not exactly As far as I’ve heard, the keyboard works fine on Macs, as that is what it was designed for.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:03:18 +0000

Hello Samuel,

I’m on Mac 10.4.11. I guess the above advice will not be appropriate to me?

Thanks anyway

Alex