Bug#963002: udev: Keyboard mis-detected as Apple

[Michael Biebl]

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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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