Apple wireless keyboard and mighty mouse

[crussell42]

Hi all. I have a shiny new apple wireless keyboard and mighty mouse.
I was able to get them working in FC9 using a targa USB-bluetooth dongle.
Tools used hcitool and hidd. Conf files /etc/sysconfig/bluetooth and /etc/bluetooth/hci.conf
and dont forget to use Gnome login to do the initial pairing of the bluetooth devices so that
bluetooth-applet causes the pairing applet to save the bonded key.
Great thats all great and the mouse works fine and most keys on the keyboard work fine except:
Keyboard fn key (lower left key) unseen by xev at all.
This kills all my multimedia keys I want to use and (actually since I use emacs I want to swap the fn and ctrl keys so my pinkee finder does not get tired).
In groking other sites I think I understand that the events generated by the keyboards fn key are
actually acpi events? which are not picked up and handed to the X event loop.
I may have the terminology wrong but the concept makes sense.

Does anyone know how or the appropriate way to capture these and hand them to xev so that I can get my fn key.
And or any way to see the events spewing from my USB bluetooth dongle just to get an idea that the fn key is at least generating some sort of data onto the serial bus???

[crussell42]

Well no great answers yet but a few more clues.
If I cat /proc/bus/input/devices I see that the device file for the wireless keyboard is 6.
My original wired keyboard still hooked up is 3.
So if whilst in Xorg I can open a terminal and
# cat /dev/input/event6
Then I press my fn key and some data spews out.
So it is my opinion then that at least the key is alive if not handled correctly.
The above test was run using a Driver "kbd" within xorg.conf.

I tried switching the xorg.conf to use an Driver "evdev" and I am able to use the keyboard
within x but still no fn key. And yes in KDE I went to system properties->regional->keyboard and set the type to evdev managed keyboard and us and mac variant to get my cursor keys back at least.
Interestingly enough the eject button on the keyboard does fire a XF86Eject event when watching output of xev (but it is an independent key and does not require <fn> modifier).
So it would appear to me that both kbd and evdev keyboard drivers for X are ignoring the fn key.
I see rumors of xorg using HAL and that that may be a key but it seems to me
that the evdev driver if so inclined could at least pick up the event for X.
Any help here much appreciated as my shiny new keyboard is just too painful to use until I can get this key swapped with the <Ctrl> key.

[verney]

I am using an Apple keyboard and a Logitech bluetooth mouse are working! But don't work again after rebooting. I have to manually connect both. Can you explain how to make the connection 'permanent'
I am running FC9 and I have no clue what I have to do in /etc/sysconfig/bluetooth or /etc/bluetooth/hci/conf to make this happen

Thanks!

[crussell42]

In theory there is a service /etc/rc.d/init.d/bluetooth that reads the config file /etc/sysconfig/bluetooth.
If you add
HIDD_OPTIONS="--connect 00:1F:5B:F9:9B:44 --connect 00:1F:F3E:B2:13"
HID_ENABLE=true
replacing the device id's with your own, then the connections should happen on reboot.
It is however my experience that reality is never what we expect.
To get device ids man hciutil from command line.

[crussell42]

Thanks for all the help you fedora gurus....
Not even a nibble?

[crussell42]

Sorry Verney, that was hcitool not hciutil.
Also you might run hidd -list.
My hci.conf looks like this but iy your mouse and keyboard are able to connect manually then
the connect commands listed above should be enough.
/etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf
# I ADDED THIS

device 00:1F:5B:F9:9B:44 {
name "Apple Wireless Keyboard";
auth enable;
encrypt enable
}
device 00:1F:F3E:B2:13 {
name "Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse";
auth enable;
encrypt enable
}

[crussell42]

Still no real answer here.
I was able to remap lots of keys to make the keyboard usable for an old emacs dude.
Here is my .Xmodmap
e.g. xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
this solves most problems except lack of a "fn" key.
Major keyboard remaps are as follows
<Eject> buttonat top right becomes Delete
<Command>-up,<Command>-down become PageUp and PageDown
<Command>-left and <Command>-right become Home and End
These remaps make the keyboard at least usable.

keycode   8 =
keycode   9 = Escape
keycode  10 = 1 exclam
keycode  11 = 2 at
keycode  12 = 3 numbersign
keycode  13 = 4 dollar
keycode  14 = 5 percent
keycode  15 = 6 asciicircum
keycode  16 = 7 ampersand
keycode  17 = 8 asterisk
keycode  18 = 9 parenleft
keycode  19 = 0 parenright
keycode  20 = minus underscore
keycode  21 = equal plus
!!
!!APPL "delete" key on apple keyboard
!!On notmal keyboards 
!!<bs> is keycode 22
!!<delete> is keycode 107
!!Then modifiers can be Delete e.b. shift-bs==delete
!!ORIG keycode  22 = BackSpace Terminate_Server
!!bs==BackSpace shift-bs==Delete command-bs==Terminate_Server
!!for what ever reason the Shift modifier does no good but the command one does
keycode  22 = BackSpace Delete Delete Terminate_Server
keycode 107 = Delete

keycode  23 = Tab ISO_Left_Tab
keycode  24 = q Q
keycode  25 = w W
keycode  26 = e E
keycode  27 = r R
keycode  28 = t T
keycode  29 = y Y
keycode  30 = u U
keycode  31 = i I
keycode  32 = o O
keycode  33 = p P
keycode  34 = bracketleft braceleft
keycode  35 = bracketright braceright
keycode  36 = Return
keycode  37 = Control_L
keycode  38 = a A
keycode  39 = s S
keycode  40 = d D
keycode  41 = f F
keycode  42 = g G
keycode  43 = h H
keycode  44 = j J
keycode  45 = k K
keycode  46 = l L
keycode  47 = semicolon colon
keycode  48 = apostrophe quotedbl
keycode  49 = grave asciitilde
keycode  50 = Shift_L
keycode  51 = backslash bar
keycode  52 = z Z
keycode  53 = x X
keycode  54 = c C
keycode  55 = v V
keycode  56 = b B
keycode  57 = n N
keycode  58 = m M
keycode  59 = comma less
keycode  60 = period greater
keycode  61 = slash question
keycode  62 = Shift_R
keycode  63 = KP_Multiply XF86_ClearGrab
keycode  64 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode  65 = space
keycode  66 = Caps_Lock
keycode  67 = F1 XF86_Switch_VT_1
keycode  68 = F2 XF86_Switch_VT_2
keycode  69 = F3 XF86_Switch_VT_3
keycode  70 = F4 XF86_Switch_VT_4
keycode  71 = F5 XF86_Switch_VT_5
keycode  72 = F6 XF86_Switch_VT_6

!! APPL F7==Home
keycode  73 = Home

keycode  74 = F8 XF86_Switch_VT_8

!! APPL F9==End
keycode  75 = End

keycode  76 = F10 XF86_Switch_VT_10
keycode  77 = Num_Lock Pointer_EnableKeys
keycode  78 = Scroll_Lock
keycode  79 = KP_Home KP_7
keycode  80 = KP_Up KP_8
keycode  81 = KP_Prior KP_9
keycode  82 = KP_Subtract XF86_Prev_VMode
keycode  83 = KP_Left KP_4
keycode  84 = KP_Begin KP_5
keycode  85 = KP_Right KP_6
keycode  86 = KP_Add XF86_Next_VMode
keycode  87 = KP_End KP_1
keycode  88 = KP_Down KP_2
keycode  89 = KP_Next KP_3
keycode  90 = KP_Insert KP_0
keycode  91 = KP_Delete KP_Decimal
keycode  92 =
keycode  93 = Mode_switch
keycode  94 = less greater bar brokenbar bar brokenbar
keycode  95 = F11 XF86_Switch_VT_11
keycode  96 = F12 XF86_Switch_VT_12

keycode  97 = Home
keycode 103 = End

!! PageUp PageDown
keycode  99 = Prior
keycode 105 = Next

!!APPL up-arrow 
!!MODS        none  shift lock     control mod1         mod2    mod3 mod4             mod5
!!MOD KEYS    none  shift Ctrl  CapsLock Control Alt-Or-Meta  NumLock -    Super-or-Hyper
!!Nothing seems to work past the shift modifier
!!NO NO NO
!! As per http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/X11/xmodmap.html#format
!! <1> -- key
!! <2> -- Shift key
!! <3> -- Mode_switch key (keycode 93??? scan code for this???)
!! <4> -- Shift Mode_switch key
!! 5..8 ignore
!! Mode_switch is in mod5 modifier and Super_L in mod4
!! Keycode 115 is the <Command> key
!! So below we changed keycode 115 from Super_L to Mode_switch now our 3rd column
!! works.
keycode  98 = Up    Up Prior
keycode 104 = Down  Down  Next
keycode 100 = Left  Left  Home
keycode 102 = Right Right   End



keycode 106 = Insert

keycode 108 = KP_Enter
keycode 109 = Control_R
keycode 110 = Pause Break
keycode 111 = Print Sys_Req
keycode 112 = KP_Divide XF86_Ungrab
keycode 113 = Alt_R Meta_R
keycode 114 =

!!Try this
!!keycode 115 = Super_L
keycode 115 = Mode_switch

keycode 116 = Super_R
keycode 117 = Menu
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keycode 125 = NoSymbol Alt_L
keycode 126 = KP_Equal
keycode 127 = NoSymbol Super_L
keycode 128 = NoSymbol Hyper_L
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!!APPL CRAP USE Eject button as true Delete
keycode 204 = Delete

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keycode 215 = XF86KbdLightOnOff
keycode 216 = XF86KbdBrightnessDown
keycode 217 = XF86KbdBrightnessUp
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!!What the Hell, try the scancode returned by showkey for fn key...no it does not work.
keycode 464 = bar