on 14/03/03 09:27, Mike Turner at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is this normal behaviour for a lightly used Pismo trackpad button? > Is there any known way of quietening it (other than clicking it thousands > of times)?
Don't know, don't use much the clicker. I'm mostly using the trackpad for all my clicking needs (where you tap your finger on the trackpad to simulate a click, much quieter than any clicker)... > > Brightness controls on the keyboard don't work! > I was aware that the dedicated volume and brightness controls from the > WallStreet have been replaced by the function keys on the keyboard of the > Pismo. The volume and mute keys work just fine, bringing up the same old > volume display on the bottom of the screen. But the brightness keys (F1 > and F2) don't apparently do anything at all! At the moment, the LCD > display is nice and bright, but I am used to reducing the brightness to > increase battery life. Is there something obvious I am missing? Is this a > sign that there is a fault with this Pismo? That's probably because the previous owner did activate (or deactivate?) the function keys in one of the options of the keyboard control panel under OS 9. The default behavior is that when you press those keys, they act on the brightness or the sound. If you want to use them as function keys, you have to press the far bottom left 'fn' key. Well, in OS 9 (no way to set that in OS X yet), you can specify that the keys will work as function keys, and you then have to press the 'fn' key to use them to control brightness and volume. Try it, you won't want to go back. That's my regular setting since it's more harder to turn the brightness or volume all the way up or down by accidentally pressing *both* the 'fn' key and the others. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] farming n.: [Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media. Associated with a crash. Typically used as follows: "Oh no, the machine has just crashed; I hope the hard drive hasn't gone farming again." No longer common; modern drives automatically park their heads in a safe zone on power-down, so it takes a real mechanical problem to induce this. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
