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Offline Gumberculese

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plum mx 96 on OS X?
« on: Mon, 30 December 2013, 22:42:17 »
I just got a plum morphling mx 96 (http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Plum-MX-96-Machanical-Keyboard-wireless-Wired-Cherry-Brown-switch-N-key-rollover-Fast-Free-shipping/703473804.html) for Christmas and I absolutely love the keyboard.

With one small exception:

I am primarily a Mac user and cannot for the life of me get the keyboard to work in OS X.  Has anyone else with this keyboard had any luck?

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Re: plum mx 96 on OS X?
« Reply #1 on: Mon, 30 December 2013, 23:27:50 »
Hmm my friend used to have this problem, He eventually gave up and bought a HHKB

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Re: plum mx 96 on OS X?
« Reply #2 on: Tue, 31 December 2013, 00:30:16 »
Hmm my friend used to have this problem, He eventually gave up and bought a HHKB

Yeah, that's about where I am at now.  I haven't found any solutions anywhere.  On the other hand, it works fine on my Windows 7 bootcamp.

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Re: plum mx 96 on OS X?
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 31 December 2013, 01:19:04 »
Could it be a driver issue?

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Re: plum mx 96 on OS X?
« Reply #4 on: Tue, 31 December 2013, 02:05:23 »
It's the way Apple did their multiple interface keyboard handling. Lot of mechanical keyboards have this problem only on Mac OSX. Not keyboard fault... Apple fault.

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Re: plum mx 96 on OS X?
« Reply #5 on: Tue, 31 December 2013, 14:39:48 »
Perhaps no one else has tried using this keyboard on a Mac?  Maybe describing what is wrong could help identify the problem?

None of the non-alphanumeric keys work (space, shift, caps, return, etc.) or at least work properly. And many of the alphanumeric keys, particularity on the right-hand side of the keyboard are accompanied by nonsense characters. for example whenever I hit b it looks like 'b[' and k is 'k<' and other such nonsense.  It seems to pick up the proper key stroke but adds junk to it.

When I boot into my windows 7 partition, the keyboard works fine.

It seems like OS X just doesn't know how to handle the input (both wired and wireless). They keyboard setup assistant won't recognize the keyboard either, it never realizes when I hit the '?' key (left of the right shift).

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Re: plum mx 96 on OS X?
« Reply #6 on: Tue, 31 December 2013, 15:25:39 »
It's the way Apple did their multiple interface keyboard handling. Lot of mechanical keyboards have this problem only on Mac OSX. Not keyboard fault... Apple fault.

Of course keyboard fault. If you can't guarantee compatibility with one of the three major operating systems you made a **** product. Especially if it's something as simple as a keyboard.
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Re: plum mx 96 on OS X?
« Reply #7 on: Tue, 31 December 2013, 15:49:36 »
^

done alot of keyboard firmware programming recently?
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Re: plum mx 96 on OS X?
« Reply #8 on: Tue, 31 December 2013, 18:50:00 »
He sure looks like it...
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Re: plum mx 96 on OS X?
« Reply #9 on: Tue, 31 December 2013, 19:55:51 »
He sure looks like it...

Looks like what?

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Re: plum mx 96 on OS X?
« Reply #10 on: Tue, 31 December 2013, 21:44:39 »
it is probably forcing the NKRO-over-USB hack, which can be alleviated by using a USB -> PS/2 -> USB dual adapter combo.

http://deskthority.net/wiki/NKRO-over-USB_issues
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Re: plum mx 96 on OS X?
« Reply #11 on: Thu, 02 January 2014, 22:27:31 »
it is probably forcing the NKRO-over-USB hack, which can be alleviated by using a USB -> PS/2 -> USB dual adapter combo.

http://deskthority.net/wiki/NKRO-over-USB_issues

Thanks!  That was actually a huge help!  I figured it out!

I just needed to disable nkro and switch it to 6kro using fn+F12.  Works like a dream now!  Wired and wirelessly.  I also needed to use the numlock fix described here:

http://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=39135.0

to get the numpad working.  It's my new favorite keyboard...now to find some fancier keycaps...
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