You probably have an Fn lock somewhere, perhaps on Esc?
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Yes... But the funktions dont Work No Matter ig i press the FN Button or Not
Did you try Fn + Esc (assuming your Fn lock on Esc) to release the Fn lock?
If that doesn't work, maybe something changed in your BIOS setup related to Fn keys. It's most likely the first one though.
Tried that. It is not working. I assumed that this was not the problem in the First place because the function keys do not work whether i press FN or not.
It seems like it does not work at all
Edit. Sorry for the random Capitalisation. My phone ist still strange with english in my Lemmy App.
It's okay.
Can you see Fn Lock status with this command?
xset q | grep "Lock"
This command is usually useful for checking Caps Lock, Num Lock etc. but not sure if it would also check Fn Lock.
Also can you check if your laptop has a led light next to Fn Lock on ESC button? If so, is it lit?
There is a light IT does not light Up. It Lights Up in the BIOS. After that IT Turns Off. I checked in the BIOS . There the num lock ist Set to "keep as before".
Your command retuns an Error Message. Sais "xset : command Not found"
Hmm, xset is not installed on Bazzite and it doesn't exist on homebrew and flathub either. Using Distrobox for this command is overkill but I don't see another way. So, can you install Debian on Distrobox (it might take a while) and then run that command? If xset still doesn't come pre-installed on Debian, you can install it via sudo apt install xset (hopefully that's also the package name).
By the way, do function keys at least work as F-keys? For example, can you open file manager and select a file, then press F2. Does it open rename the file?
Weeeell
I updated and the Keys Work now...
Function lock also works....
The Update seems to have fixed it somehow. Thanks for the Help tough.
You're welcome! To be fair, we couldn't even pass the diagnosing stage. However I'm glad it's fixed with an update.