iMac G5 & new apple keyboard - some keys not working

Hello - thank you for the quick responses! To answer your question, yes, I have repaired my permissions and restarted, to no avail.

I have looked through the keyboard prefs quite a bit, and cannot find anything that allows me to choose where to map the sound keys. I have checked "Use All F1 F2 etc keys as standard function keys". In the small aluminum keyboards, the f keys are dual-function - in this case, the f10-f12 keys also control dashboard, etc, which I have turned off (but I have tested the keys with these options both off & on, with the fn key, without the fn key, etc - tried lots of combinations). I've tried quite a few things to get these keys to work. Honestly, the f1-f4 keys don't seem to work at all either.

I might try and take a video later today to show you what I mean. The caps lock key is the biggest thing that's bothering me - I use it instead of shift to type, and 75% of the type it does not activate when pressed...I would think this was just one bogus keyboard if it weren't for the fact that I already exchanged it once...

Hello, and thanks for the quick response! Unfortunately, I do have that option checked and it appear to have had no effect.

Oop, spoke to soon about the f1-f4 keys - was able to remap them so that f1 & f2 are indeed brightness, and f3 and f4 are expose and dashboard (after playing around in the dashboard & expose prefs). Still can't find out how to map the playback keys to f7-f9, or the sound controls to f10-f12 - and even so, my f12 still seems to want to eject most of the time anyway, so even if that's mapped right it'll probably have some problems....

Also, clicking around on-line suggested that having that option unchecked was better, so of course I have tried it both ways. Neither has worked.

Hey Miriam,

Thanks for the suggestion! Rifled around in Universal Access - wasn't able to get it to acknowledge the sound keys yet (the Hearing section has no option for it, and any advanced items lead to the Sound preferences pane, which also does not give any options). I might just go ahead and call Apple about this - it's sounding like a deeper issue than just prefs.

I did find out that my Capslock problem is because these keyboards have capslock avoidance - meant to prevent people who use shift from accidentally bumping capslock, it actually neuters people like me, who type using capslock instead of shift. It makes it so that caplock only activates when hit at a slower speed, so I have to very slowly and deliberately hit capslock, instead of just on the fly while typing. That might actually make or break this keyboard for me.

Thanks for all your help!