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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: ATXTider on Sat, 11 April 2015, 09:27:16

Title: Newer Choc Minis and OS X
Post by: ATXTider on Sat, 11 April 2015, 09:27:16
Does anyone know if the Choc Minis now support OS X, or do you still need to do the USB -> PS/2 -> USB trick?
Title: Re: Newer Choc Minis and OS X
Post by: SquawkVFR on Sat, 11 April 2015, 15:18:51
I have a Choc Mini I purchased from Amazon within the last month that plug and plays with my rMBP.  I'm not sure if something changed in OSX, but keyboards that did not work in the past now work after going through the "unidentified keyboard" prompts.
Title: Re: Newer Choc Minis and OS X
Post by: spiceBar on Sat, 11 April 2015, 22:31:54
I have a Choc Mini I purchased from Amazon within the last month that plug and plays with my rMBP.  I'm not sure if something changed in OSX, but keyboards that did not work in the past now work after going through the "unidentified keyboard" prompts.

The issue that has been reported with *some* keyboards and OS X is that the keyboard works fine under OS X, but not when you wake the computer with the keyboard and need to enter your password to log in.

Have you tried this? I can imagine it would be easy to miss if you wake up the computer by opening the lid, and if it does not ask for the password or if you use the built-in keyboard to type it.
Title: Re: Newer Choc Minis and OS X
Post by: SquawkVFR on Sun, 12 April 2015, 07:23:35
I have a Choc Mini I purchased from Amazon within the last month that plug and plays with my rMBP.  I'm not sure if something changed in OSX, but keyboards that did not work in the past now work after going through the "unidentified keyboard" prompts.

The issue that has been reported with *some* keyboards and OS X is that the keyboard works fine under OS X, but not when you wake the computer with the keyboard and need to enter your password to log in.

Have you tried this? I can imagine it would be easy to miss if you wake up the computer by opening the lid, and if it does not ask for the password or if you use the built-in keyboard to type it.

I'll have to try this, I have switched to running Windows 8.1 on my rMBP through bootcamp almost exclusively, and haven't dealt with that scenario.