Microsoft Natural keyboard support

Paul Michael Reilly pmr at pajato.com
Wed Apr 12 15:32:00 UTC 2006


Paul Michael Reilly <pmr at pajato.com> writes:

 > Reply-To: pmr at pajato.com,
 >         For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
 > 
 > I'm looking for the magic incantation to have FC5 support the
 > Microsoft natural keyboard.  The functions keys (F1-F12) do not work
 > under FC5 but they do work properly on FC4.  What I find baffling is
 > that I am using VNC from a FC5 system to a FC4 system and the
 > function keys are actually being detected by FC4 so they are being
 > detected at some level by the kernel.
 > 
 > In any case, I did try setting the xorg.conf XkbdOption to "microsoft"
 > but that did not provide the cure.

I was a bit hasty.  It did provide the cure.

-pmr




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