Subject: Re: Powerbook Keyboard FYI
From: Adam Oliner (adam@rpdesign.com)
Date: Thu Aug 03 2000 - 08:11:02 MDT
Olivier,
I have a FireWire Powerbook (500 MHz, 256 MB, 12 GB) and am
purchasing an 8 GB VST bay drive, on which I will be partitioning and
installing Yellow Dog CS1.2.
Since you have installed onto a FWPB before, I am wondering if you
could share the speed bumps you encountered during the install. Will
it be more difficult for me since I'm installing onto a separate
drive, or easier? Any help you could provide would be most
appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
>>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.
--Adam Oliner Director of Technology Reference Point Design <http://www.rpdesign.com>
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