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[_] mac keyboard with linux

Joe Egan joeegan at inbox.com
Thu Jan 3 14:30:46 GMT 2008

> On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 13:51 +0000, Joe Egan wrote:
>> Having a frustrating time having to reconnect my new mac keyboard
>> (A1243) back into my PC every 5 mins as it just stops working.
> 
> you could try typing dmesg into a terminal and it might tell you
> why its disconnecting. Do you have any other usb issues ? it sounds
> like your usb chipset might be badly supported.
> 
>> Anybody know of any drivers I may need to install to get it working?
> 
> It should be built into the Xserver or part of the kernel input layer.
> 
> Have a search on ubuntuforums.org , i'm sure someone else has tried
> this and there are usually guides for how to do anything with ubuntu.
> 
> Toodle-pip
> Amias

Thanks Amias but the problem seemed to repair itself - probably via update.

Cheers,

Joe