Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi
Am 17.06.20 um 14:08 schrieb Vroomfondel: > Package: udev > Version: 241-7~deb10u4 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > * What led up to the situation? > New Varmilo keyboard > > * What was the outcome of this action? > Fn keys not working correctly > > * What outcome did you expect instead? > Fn key to work out of the box (as it does with my other Varmilo > KB) > > * Futher elaboration: > I've run in to an odd problem recently with a new keyboard, a Varmilo VA88M > (essentially the UK-ISO version of the VA87M); a fairly bog-standard > tenkeyless keyboard. > > On first use everything seemed to work OK, but it eventualy transpired that > the Fkeys weren't working as expected. F1 through F6 didn't work at all and > F7 through F12 acted as media keys as if the Fn key was being pressed. > Holding down the Fn key and pressing Fkeys they worked as expected, so the > default behaviour of the keyboard was as if the Fn key was being held down > all the time. Plugging in to a mate's windows machine, the same behaviour > didn't occur. > > On inspecting lsusb, it seemed that the keyboard was perhaps being > erroneously detected as an Apple keyboard. lsusb output: > Bus 001 Device 007: ID 05ac:024f Apple, Inc. > Tbh, that sounds like a hardware issue, and not like a software issue. Why does Varmilo VA88M use the same vendor id as Apple? That sounds fishy. Have you tried contacting the hardware vendor?
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