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Im trying to get the multimedia keys (volume, brightness) working on Apple Keyboards on a Macbook Air 2011 and Macbook Pro Retina 2015 The function keys work as function keys but pressing the fn key and then the function keys doesnt trigger the multimedia keys The keyboard layout is correctly...

When I booted FreeBSD my USB keyboard wouldn't work. Num Lock light was on and wouldn't respond to Num Lock toggle presses. Unplugging and plugging the USB keyboard back just produced the same situation, Num Lock diode stuck in on mode, nothing working. So I stopped using FreeBSD as my desktop...

Every time I start KDE 5 in FreeBSD 14, the keyboard layout is loaded as US, although I've set FI (=Finnish) as the only keyboard layout to be loaded in System Settings / Input Devices / Keyboard / Layouts. I can only change the layout in Terminal with setxkbmap fi, or making changes to the...

Hey! What's up! I need to switch from US keyboard layout to Spanish. How can I do that in FreeBSD 14. I tested another solutions on the forum but not working, so. Thank you for your reply!

After installing GhostBSD, selected keyboard layout was used in X/xorg, but not in console. According to this vt is the current default console. Keyboard layout is in /usr/share/vt/keymap/colemak.acc.kbd Solution: edit /etc/defaults/rc.conf keymap="colemak.acc.kbd" and /etc/rc.conf...

Hi all, I just received my brand new 8BitDo Retro Keyboard and connected it to my machine running FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p5. The problem is that L-SHIFT, R-SHIFT, L-CTRL, R-CTRL, L-WIN, R-WIN, R-ALT, L-ALT, and the two special A and B key on the keyboard and the external A and B buttons does not...

Hello, I have tried several times to install FreeBSD on my Dell computer but I have a problem. Once the system installation is complete, I install xorg and then KDE. I install following the FreeBSD documentation. Throughout the installation, my keyboard and mouse work fine. When I reboot after...

Hi, Today I got my Keychron Q3 mechanical keyboard, and I have to say this peripheral works on FreeBSD 13.1 RELEASE amd64. Check this: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mechanical-keyboard-keychron-k2-v2-works-on-fbsd-13-1.87782/ and this...

Hello everyone, I know this topic has been discussed several times before, but the problem is still remaining. The Client computer, accessing a VM via VNC still needs to be in QWERTY in order to access another keyboard in the VM. This problem has been fixed on illumos with -K option. I know...

Hi all, What I am looking for is a method to view the screen of another machine via VNC,X11 Forwarding or other method but I want to type on that screen with a keyboard that is physically attached to the machine. Here the setup: Machine 1 with screen1 (and keyboard1) Machine 2 without screen2...

Hello, I am troubleshooting to get a drawing pad to work on FreeBSD. When I uninstall the pkg "libwacom" and do a reboot, the mouse and keyboard does not work at all. https://www.freshports.org/x11/libwacom I have to boot into single user mode and reinstall libwacom and then everything works...

HID devices include keyboards, gamepads/joysticks, penpads/touchpads, mice... This can be for any type of HID device, from the old architecture, from x86-input, from the newer driver architecture, from Antimicro or Bluetooth. Any HID that runs on FreeBSD. Even plans on what to do with it. Or...

Enabling usbhid usbhid gives the ability to use newer advanced hid drivers. The ability to use usbhid must be turned on from /boot/loader.conf: hw.usb.usbhid.enable="1" Then, load the driver through /etc/rc.conf: kld_list="usbhid" Turning this module on from /boot/loader.conf won't work. Once...

When I try to type capital letters on bhyve guest windows10 I got messages "Unhandled ps2 keyboard keysym 0xffe5", and Only lowercase letters are printed. My script start windows10 is as follows: #!/bin/sh bhyve -c 1 -m 2G -w -H -s 0,hostbridge \ -s 2,ahci-hd,/dev/zvol/zroot/win10disk1 \ -s...

Hello, I am trying to build QMK firmware for a kyboard and I was following this guide. For FreeBSD it says to run the command pkg install -g "py*-qmk". However I can't find any packaged related to QMK. I've tried pkg search qmk and it's returns nothing. So I tried installing Python 3, running...

Hello, Recently I've switched from Slackware to FreeBSD-13.0 on my T430s. I'm very happy with how does the system run etc. but some things just seem to not work that well: Laptop goes to sleep after opening a lid. To suspend the laptop I have to close and then open the lid, only after then it...

Potentially strange question, but I'm trying to customize a secondary keyboard on a FreeBSD machine. I have a standard keyboard, that I'd like to have behave as a "normal" keyboard. Then I have this bizarre hand-shaped keyboard, the Belkin n52te, that I'd like to use for controlling Open...

Hi, im new here (and with Freebsd), and I'm having trouble making my keyboard (br abnt2) work and my cli show characters like "ã". keybord shorcuts like alt + q to "/" and alt + w to "?" don't work. my /etc/rc.conf have: keymap="br.kbd" my: /boot/loader.conf have: kern.vty="vt" i edited...

Hello, I'm using a Lenovo Legion Y540T with Sway WM. Everything works fine except the special keys and the numpad. I don't care about the special keys since they are ACPI-bound and I could re-map their functionality to key combinations but I really miss the numpad. It could be also ACPI-bound...

Hello, I have tried changing the screen resolution with vidcontrol but I got an error: module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xffffffff8251100, 0) error 19 sysctl_unregister_oid: failed to unregister sysctl With this reply, I changed my console mode from vt to sc and I successfully changed my...