I had similar problems on my iBook2, the brightness had gotten stuck in off mode (which I didn't know then, it just was like lcd was dead). Talking to Apple Support we tried everything, nothing helped, until I on my own booted from the MacOS9 CD that came with the ibook2 and waited for it too boot fully under black screen. When I was sure it had finished booting, I was able to increase brightness with the "f2" keyboard on the keyboard (the brightness up key). One might note that this key only works when the OS is loaded, hence not at boot. This Apple Support didn't even know.
On Sat, 20 Oct 2001, Jason M. Goodwin wrote: JMG> Yeah, I'm starting to think its broken hardware...man this sucks! JMG> JMG> I tried the command-option-p-r thing, but I never get the extra JMG> chimes. A guy showed me what it's supposed to do on a TiBook JMG> (went by a local mac retailer today). He reset it, held the keys JMG> down and chime, chime, chime it went...When I do it on mine, all JMG> I ever get is the first chime as it boots. Ugh...even tried JMG> connecting it to a monitor to see if the video was getting put JMG> out on the vga connector, no luck. At least I got my debian cd JMG> back out of it ;) as I finally found the little pin-sized button JMG> that is their 'manual' release...I figured it might be best not JMG> to have that in there if I have to send it back to Apple :-) JMG> JMG> thanks for the suggestions, JMG> JMG> Jason JMG> JMG> On Saturday 20 October 2001 14:24, Colin Walters wrote: JMG> > What you describe sounds like broken hardware; but two things. Have JMG> > you tried holding down Command-Option-p-r and letting it reboot three JMG> > times? JMG> > JMG> > Also, are you sure your display brightness is up? -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie
