I recently bought a Toshiba laptop, dropped Vista and setup XP.
Everything is working fine except for the fact that I cannot decrease
the brightness of the screen using FN + F6. I've looked on Toshiba's
website for keyboard drivers but haven't found anything. I've searched
Google to see if anyone else has encountered this problem and haven't
found anything.

Any help would be appreciated.

IRB <ianregbull******.com> wrote in
news:6791e05a4a70e59f98139dc201c96a0c@nntp-gateway.com:

>
> G'day,
> I am having the same problem as yourself. I've read what seems like
> a possible solution. Here it is
>
> On some notebook models there is difference between Toshiba hotkey
> utility and Toshiba hotkey utility for display devices and those are
two
> different utilities. Because of that I have recommended to install the
> hotkey utility alone. I didn’t know that it is not available for Tecra
> M2 separately.
>
> The problem is that functionality of FN keys depends on right
> installation order and the most important is “Common modules” and must
> be preinstalled at first, before you start to install any other
Toshiba
> designed tool or utility. It is not easy to say why this happen in
your
> case but try to reinstall Common modules again. I don’t know if this
> will help but you can try.
>
> This worked for the fellow seeking a solution. So, maybe...
>
>

It's not just Toshiba. My Samsung NC10 netbook brightness level has a
mind of its own, normally opening at minimum setting so you can't hardly
see the picture.

It seems once the low light setting manifests itself, it tends to be
very hard to override. Once overridden, it work fine for a few wakeups,
then reverts back to its "start me in the dark" setting.

The Fn + uparrow keys function, but only after WinXP as booted, so it
must be these utilities storing the wrong setting on close or
hibernation. I normally hibernate, not shutdown, the NC10. Hibernation
doesn't store the full brightness setting because when it comes out of
hibernation, it's dark again. Very frustrating.



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Larry

If a man goes way out into the woods all alone and says something,
is it still wrong, even though no woman hears him?

In news:Xns9C3A7ED2FE708noonehomecom@74.209.131.13,
Larry typed on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:28:03 +0000:
> It's not just Toshiba. My Samsung NC10 netbook brightness level has a
> mind of its own, normally opening at minimum setting so you can't
> hardly see the picture.
>
> It seems once the low light setting manifests itself, it tends to be
> very hard to override. Once overridden, it work fine for a few
> wakeups, then reverts back to its "start me in the dark" setting.
>
> The Fn + uparrow keys function, but only after WinXP as booted, so it
> must be these utilities storing the wrong setting on close or
> hibernation. I normally hibernate, not shutdown, the NC10.
> Hibernation doesn't store the full brightness setting because when it
> comes out of hibernation, it's dark again. Very frustrating.

There is an EeePC utility called eeectl that has both Linux and Windows
versions. It might work on other Intel machines too, I am not sure. But
it has an Ultra Bright mode that I have to wear sunglasses just to see
the screen. I only use the Windows version, not sure what you can do
with the Linux version.

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Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G4 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP Home SP2