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Where is the brightness control? [PIC INCLUDED]
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Join Date: May 2001
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Okay, call me crazy, but I just got a new 17" flat panel, installed the software from the CD, and I can't find a brightness control anywhere. This is what I get when I open "Monitors" control panel...
 
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I GOT WASTED WITH PHIL SHERRY!!!
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Is it perhaps one of those F-Key shortcuts? RTFM?
-- Clive
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Senior User
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Originally posted by G4ME:
<STRONG>what is it in OSX?</STRONG>
It's actually quite cool in OSX. There's a brightness icon on the face of the monitor, and when you "press" it, though it's not exactly a button, more of an "area," if that makes sense, the monitors preference window automatically opens. There's a brightness slider in there.
But that screenshot is in OS 9.2. Can any other 17" lcd users confirm the lack of a brightness toggle?
And no, there isn't a function key -- this is on my G4 tower. The keyboard doesn't have those buttons.
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Although I'm totally unfamiliar with the LCD displays, is there something in the control strip?
Mike
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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O,
I have a 17" panel also and when I go to monitors I have a "color" button to the right of "Monitor" and a brightness control below. When I do "about" it's version 8.6.1. What version do you have? I'm on OS 9.1 also on a G4 tower (dual 450s I think).
Maybe a software update would get a newer version of monitors?
Tom
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Originally posted by oranjdisc:
<STRONG>And no, there isn't a function key -- this is on my G4 tower. The keyboard doesn't have those buttons.</STRONG>
I don't know what kind of keyboard you have, but every Apple keyboard has F-Keys, the top row on the keyboard.
On powerbooks these are used for things like brightness, you might have to try them in combination with the command key.
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Senior User
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Originally posted by tomrock:
<STRONG>When I do "about" it's version 8.6.1. What version do you have?
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Mine says 8.6.3.
How weird. My control panel is newer, but doesn't have those options. There SHOULD be a colors button there (or at least I thought so).
And yes, my keyboard is an Apple Pro Keyboard so it has function keys -- just not a brightness option like on my iBook keyboard.
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