[SOLVED]Keychron keyboard function/multimedia keys

angryjenkins · 2020-05-13 04:06:37

Greetings and salutations!

Got a Lenovo m93p Tiny yesterday and decided to throw Lithium on it.

Everything is working fine EXCEPT the function keys on my Keychron K1. I use it with the Apple keys and have the keyboard set to Apple mode. The issue is by default the buttons perform the media functions (and only some of them) - volume up/down, back-light brightness, etc. I want these to use the function keys by default.

I've already attempted updating /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf (fnmode=2) - I did this on my laptop with LMDE 4 and it worked fine - however BL seems to be ignoring this command.

I see this question was asked once a few years back but not marked solved, and included the same solution. However I saw a key Keychrons in the Keyboard thread and am hoping someone has a solution.

Thank you kindly.

Last edited by damo (2020-05-14 09:50:30)

ohnonot · 2020-05-13 07:10:12

Please tell us a lot more about the hardware - both keyboard and computer.

angryjenkins · 2020-05-13 12:29:33

Sure thing, thanks.

The keyboard is Keychron K1 - the hardware is a Lenovo m93p Tiny - stock processor (i5-4570T) and I upgraded to 8GB Ram and installed a 120GB SSD.

Below is my sudo lshw -short if helpful.

H/W path Device Class Description
============================================================
system 10AB0010US (LENOVO_MT_10AB)
/0 bus SHARKBAY
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/3d processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570T CPU
/0/3d/3e memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/3d/3f memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/3d/40 memory 4MiB L3 cache
/0/41 memory 8GiB System Memory
/0/41/0 memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 16
/0/41/1 memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 16
/0/100 bridge 4th Gen Core Processor DRAM Con
/0/100/2 display Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Pr
/0/100/3 multimedia Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Pr
/0/100/14 bus 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Fa
/0/100/14/0 usb2 bus xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/14/0/3 multimedia JOUNIVO JV601PRO
/0/100/14/0/9 bus USB 2.0 Hub
/0/100/14/0/9/3 input ELECOM TrackBall Mouse
/0/100/14/0/a input K1-Keyboard
/0/100/14/1 usb4 bus xHCI Host Controller
/0/100/16 communication 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Fa
/0/100/16.3 communication 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Fa
/0/100/19 eno1 network Ethernet Connection I217-LM
/0/100/1a bus 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Fa
/0/100/1a/1 usb1 bus EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1a/1/1 bus USB hub
/0/100/1b multimedia 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Hi
/0/100/1c bridge 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Fa
/0/100/1c.3 bridge 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Fa
/0/100/1c.3/0 wlp2s0 network Centrino Wireless-N 105
/0/100/1d bus 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Fa
/0/100/1d/1 usb3 bus EHCI Host Controller
/0/100/1d/1/1 bus USB hub
/0/100/1f bridge Q87 Express LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Fa
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 120GB KINGSTON SA400S3
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 243MiB Linux filesystem partiti
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 111GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 111GiB Linux filesystem partiti
/0/100/1f.3 bus 8 Series/C220 Series Chipset Fa
/0/1 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/2 system PnP device PNP0b00
/0/3 generic PnP device INT3f0d
/0/4 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/5 system PnP device PNP0c02
/0/6 system PnP device PNP0c31
/0/7 system PnP device PNP0c02
/1 power To Be Filled By O.E.M.

nobody · 2020-05-13 13:02:42

a. Remove the modprobe configuration, reboot

b. Do the modprobe-equivalent from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ap … o_not_work

c. Inspect the output of dmesg immediately for information and/or errors

d. Open thew X11 event monitor from the terminal

xev

focus the window. Press the broken keys. What events -- if any -- appear in the terminal? It should show KeyPress events when you type.

KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x9e00001,                                      
    root 0x18e, subw 0x0, time 484469503, (563,842), root:(563,871),
    state 0x0, keycode 67 (keysym 0xffbe, F1), same_screen YES,                                 
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:                                                                
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:                                                              
    XFilterEvent returns: False

or similar.

e. USB keyboard? Type

lsusb -t

It'll show you the driver= attached to each USB device. Does it show that apple_hid is properly attached to the keyboard device (you can get the location by just running lsusb (without -t) it'll show bus number and bus port). If it isn't attached to the device, you'll see a standard driver like driver=usbhid, which you'd get for most standard USB keyboards. Cross-check with lsmod output. If it doesn't include apple_hid, the module isn't even loaded.

angryjenkins · 2020-05-13 21:28:29

twoion wrote:

a. Remove the modprobe configuration, reboot
b. Do the modprobe-equivalent from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ap … o_not_work
c. Inspect the output of dmesg immediately for information and/or errors
d. Open thew X11 event monitor from the terminal
xev
focus the window. Press the broken keys. What events -- if any -- appear in the terminal? It should show KeyPress events when you type.
KeyPress event, serial 40, synthetic NO, window 0x9e00001,                                      
    root 0x18e, subw 0x0, time 484469503, (563,842), root:(563,871),
    state 0x0, keycode 67 (keysym 0xffbe, F1), same_screen YES,                                 
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:                                                                
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:                                                              
    XFilterEvent returns: False
or similar.
e. USB keyboard? Type
lsusb -t
It'll show you the driver= attached to each USB device. Does it show that apple_hid is properly attached to the keyboard device (you can get the location by just running lsusb (without -t) it'll show bus number and bus port). If it isn't attached to the device, you'll see a standard driver like driver=usbhid, which you'd get for most standard USB keyboards. Cross-check with lsmod output. If it doesn't include apple_hid, the module isn't even loaded.

THANK YOU for this resource! Reading this over solved my issues.

I believe the problem was I did not 'update-itnramfs -u' after adding the modprobe options. Function keys working as desired, even after rebooting. Invaluable resource that arch wiki. Pages bookmarked for next install.

I'm a noob to the board as you can see. If possible I wlll mark this 'solved'.

damo · 2020-05-14 09:51:32

angryjenkins wrote:

...
I'm a noob to the board as you can see. If possible I wlll mark this 'solved'.

Just edit the title of your first post - I've done it for you this time

angryjenkins · 2020-05-15 12:57:06

Cheers, mate! Even fixed my typo. Quality.

damo · 2020-05-15 23:28:14

angryjenkins wrote:

Cheers, mate! Even fixed my typo. Quality.

I must admit I am a grammer nazi

#1 2020-05-13 04:06:37

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