[ltp] R40 display brightness on battery power?

[Martin Hermanowski]

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On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:09:30AM -0500, Ivarsson, Torbjorn (T) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Christoph Singer [mailto:cs@ccss.de]
> > Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 4:12 AM
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> > On 06.04.2004 00:32, Benjamin Weste Pearre wrote:
> > > Just a quickie here -- on line power the display on my R40 is much
> > > brighter than on battery.  Obviously this is best for power, but I'd
> > > prefer to manage this myself using Fn-[Home|End].  I've=20
> > looked through
> > > the BIOS settings (mostly using tpctl) and the ones that look like
> > > they might possibly disable LCD dimming don't have any effect.
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> > On the R40, there is such a BIOS option. It was the first setting I=20
> > changed after bying my new R40.
> > Unfortunately, I can't access my BIOS any longer (It says=20
> > something like=20
> > "authentication failed" or "access denied" when I hit the=20
> > "Access IBM"=20
> > button at boot time - anyone knows how to fix this?) and so I cannot=20
> > look into the BIOS where to find exactly this option. I only remember=
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> > that it was not very easy to find, because it was not in the=20
> > place where=20
> > I expected it or has a misleading name - but it should be=20
> > really there.
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> You can press F1 during the startup to get into BIOS. Maybe "Access
> IBM" fails because you have wiped out the "hidden" partition.

This should not affect the bios, I wiped the hpa and I can still access
the bios (the text mode part) with the Access IBM Butten. Perhaps they
changed this from the R40 to the T41, but I wouldn't know why.

LLAP, Martin

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