Think I just found it. Under the Thinkvantage Power Manager, Global Power Settings, Dynamic Brightness Control. There are some check boxes there for dimming at start but for some reason, they didn't kick in until way after I changed them That's why I didn't remember that change.
Thanks for the pointer. ________________________________ Robert Rosen From: Jonathan Kelly [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:45 PM To: Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Brightness control Then I'm stumped. Frankly I didn't think Speedswitch worked for anything newer than a T40/x31 era Centrino system. But either way it doesn't control LCD brightness, and I think the ThinkVantage Power Manager is the only such app that does. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re:[Thinkpad] Brightness control From: "Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E]" <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> To: Jonathan Kelly <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]>, "[email protected]"<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Date: 3/31/2009 6:36 PM Nope, running under Speedswitch control. Which is set to Max speed. ________________________________ Robert Rosen From: Jonathan Kelly [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 6:30 PM To: Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E] Cc: David Ross; [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Brightness control On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS) [E] <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: That's probably when it started but darned if I can find a setting to change it. __________________________________ Robert Rosen Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail You are probably now using the "Maximum Battery Life" profile which defaults to low brightness regardless of if you are running on battery power alone or not. If you switch to a different profile, like the "Maximum Performance" profile, the issue should go away. If you are using the "Power Source Optimized" profile and are running on battery, it will also start you in low brightness. Plugging into wall power will jump the brightness to full. If you don't like the unconfigurable settings of the default profiles, you can create your own by clicking the "New" button up top. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
