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Can I put Tiger onto my Powerbook 800 DVI without it goofing up the function keys
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Oct 20, 2005, 08:41 PM
 
I have avoided upgrading to tiger on my 800mhz tibook because I read horror stories about people's brightness keys becoming non functional, stuff like that. Has apple resolved this issue?
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 09:01 PM
 
I have a TiBook 667 (DVI) and have never had any issues with the brightness, or any other, function keys on my computer within any of the OS X versions.
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 09:18 PM
 
W9rks F|nne ON mIy CEOMPUTER... Juss+ Messes UUP tthe resst of thee keeys.
     
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Oct 20, 2005, 10:23 PM
 
You should be fine.
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Oct 22, 2005, 09:38 PM
 
I did a clean install on a 667 DVI and it did indeed mess it up. Could not adjust screen brightness.

Did a clean install on this 800 and it worked fine.

So I would say go for it.
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Oct 23, 2005, 07:01 PM
 
No problems at all. I haven't heard these stories.
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Oct 24, 2005, 12:20 AM
 
667DVI here and the keys are ok (brightness, sound). Their other function though sometimes doesn't work. In shortcuts for example in photoshop. It's weird but it does happen.
     
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Oct 24, 2005, 11:48 AM
 
I have an 800MHz TiPB and never ran into any problems with it after doing a clean install of Tiger. I've never even heard about that problem before. Must've been just a few isolated cases.
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