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Why a BIOS option? I don’t see why laptop keyboards can’t just ship with programmable firmwares. I think ZSA is showing with their Oryx GUI just how easy it ca
by JimBlackwood 4y ago
Why a BIOS option? I don’t see why laptop keyboards can’t just ship with programmable firmwares.
I think ZSA is showing with their Oryx GUI just how easy it can be for an end user.
- danudey 4y agoI'm assuming I'm not understanding you properly, but are you suggesting that flashing a custom firmware is an easier solution than changing an option in the BIOS?
- Mavvie 4y agoAssuming there'd be a nice UI in userspace to adjust the keyboard firmware settings, that would be a lot more accessible to casual users than going into BIOS. (Although, casual users probably don't care that much about Fn-Ctrl vs Ctrl-Fn)
- codethief 4y agoGreat, so one day said UI stops working on up-to-date releases of your $FAVORITE_OS because of $DEPENDENCY_ISSUES or whatever, and then what?
- henearkr 4y agoThe FW's embedded controller's firmware has been open-sourced, is on Github, and you can flash your customized version if you wish so: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/EmbeddedController https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/EmbeddedController
- postpawl 4y agoThe fn key is not a real key on the software level: https://askubuntu.com/a/827953 https://askubuntu.com/a/827953