Varmilo VA88M fn keys

General

It is long time ago this issue was encountered, hence there may be a lack of information. Fn keys would not work as expected on the Varmilo VA88M keyboard on Manjaro.

Fix

The issue was fixed by creating the file /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf with the following content

options hid_apple fnmode=2

One should ensure to have modconf included in the HOOKS variable or /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf in the FILES variable within the mkinitcpio configuration file, /etc/mkinitcpio.conf. The initramfs should then be regenerated with

mkinitcpio -p linuxXXX

where XXX represent some preset, e.g., 510 for the preset linux510.

All existing presets can be regenerated with

mkinitcpio -P