Subject: Re: Powerbook Keyboard FYI
From: Olivier van Helden (magic@samarkande.net)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 07:37:30 MDT
>I just picked up a copy of Yellow Dog at MacWorld - probably the coolest
>thing I picked up - and installed it on my PB G3 Bronze, and so far things
>are going pretty well. The install went fine, once I disconnected my
>external USB hard drive - it kept messing up the partition format.
>
>As an FYI to the crowd, and maybe someone can add this to an FAQ, but on the
>powerbooks with multifunction function keys, you have to set the keyboard
>control panel in the Mac OS to use the function keys as F keys, and not as
>the sound/brightness/num lock/hot keys they normally are. Linux will not
>recognize the F keys unless this is done. Once you make the change in the
>Mac Control Panel, make sure you reboot back into the MacOS to make sure the
>PRAM is set, then you should be able to reboot into Linux with working F
>Keys.
Hi Tony,
I did install Yellow Dog Linux on my Powerbook Firewire (it was a
little bit more complicated to get it working)...
I can use the function keys in Linux, even if they are configured
with the default powrbook function, by pressing the command (apple)
key in the same time (in fact, the command key has to be the first
pressed).
I guess you could use the same shortcut with the bronze PB.
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