 |
 |
Powerbook Backlight Hack
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Vancouver
Status:
Offline
|
|
I think it probably is possible using the terminal, but I don't know if there are many people who would know how to do it.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Vancouver
Status:
Offline
|
|
hmm for some reason the forum is putting my posts at the top.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
I think I might email the iSpaz people, see what they have to say...thanks Jeebus
...save me Jeebus...
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
As much as I love the backlit keyboard on the Powerbook, I really need a decent hack for it.
I have a 1440x900 1.67ghz Powerbook, which amongst other things, I use for DJing, but when there are lights flashing all over the place, I have to cover up the light sensor with a bit of paper, or tape to keep it permanently on, instead of flashing on and off as a passing light hits it.
Its often too dark to just switch it off, so hacking it with paper/tape is a must.
Am I missing something here, or is there an easy way to bypass the light sensor and just have the keyboard backlight fixed on when i need it?
Help!!!
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
1. Turn off keyboard illumination in the Keyboard system preference
2. Learn how to type
:-P
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Off the Tobakoff
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally Posted by Tomchu
1. Turn off keyboard illumination in the Keyboard system preference
He wants it to stay on, not off.
|
"You rise," he said, "like Aurora." 
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
Yeah, but since there's no solution to the flashing (short of using tape as he's already doing), turning it off is the next best thing when it comes to minimizing distraction. 
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2002
Status:
Offline
|
|
As I see it, you have two options...
1. cover it up like you already are, or
2. turn the kb illumination off and get a USB LED light
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2005
Status:
Offline
|
|
2. Learn how to type
...
What?
I've seen some hacks to do with making the keyboard illumination flash with certain keystrokes ( I think) when using iTunes, surely if you can do that, you can make it stay on constantly. I already use the USB ports when DJing, to add extra outputs and external mixing desk, so to add a USB light would also mean adding a USB Hub, which is more hassle than hacking the light. Plus, if Steve Jobs wanted me to have a USB light, he would have given me one with my PowerBook and not bothered building fiber optics into the keys... 
What I would really love, would be the ability to press F10 to switch the lights on, and F8 to switch them off...but judging from the reaction here, no-one seems to think it is possible...
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top