Hi, I recently installed fedora 33, previously running Arch. I have a Varmilo VA88M keyboard. The keyboard identifies as an Apple keyboard in Linux, which causes the F1-F12 keys to not function as they should.

In Arch, the solution to this was to add /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf with the contents: options hid_apple fnmode=2 In fedora, this alone does not work, however I found that creating /etc/dracut.conf.d/hid_apple.conf with the contents: install_items+=/etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf and then reg…

Getting the function keys to work properly with a Varmilo keyboard

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Getting the function keys to work properly with a Varmilo keyboard

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