Re: Backlit keyboards

2006-02-04 Thread Howard Katz
I've noticed that too on mine--actually I think the sensor (sensors?) in the speaker grill area see the light off the display and think there's plenty of light to see by. I've placed some paper over the grills to keep the keys lit on occasion--sounds kludgy but it's worked so far. On the other

Re: Backlit keyboards

2006-02-04 Thread Harry Corsover
On Feb 3, 2006, at 6:47 PM, sandra ragan wrote: On Feb 3, 2006, at 5:03 AM, Seth Austen wrote: any way to set its preferences for turning on and staying on. Just on the off chance that this is not already obvious: You do know about the two Fkeys that adjust the backlight brightness,

Re: Backlit keyboards

2006-02-04 Thread Seth Austen
On Feb 4, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Harry Corsover wrote: Just on the off chance that this is not already obvious: You do know about the two Fkeys that adjust the backlight brightness, right? F9 and F10. They do not seem to have any effect unless the ambient light is very low (i.e., pressing

Re: Backlit keyboards

2006-02-04 Thread John McGibney
On Feb 4, 2006, at 2:14 PM, Seth Austen wrote: On Feb 4, 2006, at 1:33 PM, Harry Corsover wrote: Just on the off chance that this is not already obvious: You do know about the two Fkeys that adjust the backlight brightness, right? F9 and F10. They do not seem to have any effect unless

Backlit keyboards

2006-02-03 Thread Brian Steere
Having gotten a Powerbook 1.67 (last year's model) with a backlit keyboard - which is cool - it operates somewhat sporadically, turning on and off without any reason as far as I can tell. Is there anything can be done about this? At the moment it works about as well as voice recognition (Tell me

Re: Backlit keyboards

2006-02-03 Thread Malcolm Cornelius
Having gotten a Powerbook 1.67 (last year's model) with a backlit keyboard - which is cool - it operates somewhat sporadically, turning on and off without any reason as far as I can tell. Is there anything can be done about this? Not just me then, I've been under whelmed by this - have to

Re: Backlit keyboards

2006-02-03 Thread Seth Austen
On Feb 3, 2006, at 7:39 AM, Brian Steere wrote: Having gotten a Powerbook 1.67 (last year's model) with a backlit keyboard - which is cool - it operates somewhat sporadically, turning on and off without any reason as far as I can tell. Is there anything can be done about this? I also

Re: Backlit keyboards

2006-02-03 Thread sandra ragan
On Feb 3, 2006, at 5:03 AM, Seth Austen wrote: any way to set its preferences for turning on and staying on. Looking on my Big Al with OS 10.3.9 System Prefs: Keyboard Mouse has only a checkbox to illuminate in lowlight conditions (by it's sensor) and a period of time that it turns off