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I want the backlight to come on only when a key is pressed

New MessageHow to control "wake from monitor off" (modified 0 times) laserfan
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This is slightly OT, but unlike 'normal' computer placement my IO running W98SE 24/7 is in a high traffic area (on a countertop) and when left alone the screen goes black w/backlight off via Power Management. The backlight comes back ON when the mouse is touched, even slightly i.e. inadvertantly.

Does anyone here know a way to control this such that for example it takes a Keypress to awaken, and not mouse movement? I guess as I write this I can probably de-sensitize the thing somewhat by adjusting the mouse sensitivity, but is there a better way, especially to disable the mouseball entirely? TIA.

10-07-2001 16:21:50

New MessageRE:How to control (modified 0 times) Wild_Pencil
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I did this for my IOpener webserver a long time ago.. it was very frustrating at first.

There are a bunch of IRQ's in the Right-Hand panel of the Power-Management setup-screen.. find the IRQ that corresponds to the Mouse, and set it to "Disabled".

You might also want to play with the settings related to Hard-Drive activity. In my IOpener webserver, I had to disable these as well -- otherwise, the backlight would turn on when Linux wrote its cache to the hard-disk.

I just retired this machine from web-service (upgraded to a nice, beefy P3 for JSP/Servlet hosting). I'll see if I have time to pop into my setup console and review the settings I used.

-WP

10-08-2001 01:18:30

New MessageRE:How to control (modified 0 times) laserfan
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But WP I'm running Win98SE not Linux...and there are no IRQ settings in Power Management or System Devices that I can find. Maybe there is a Registry setting somewhere?
10-08-2001 05:03:35

New MessageRE:How to control (modified 0 times) Reverend_Jones
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These IRQ settings are in the Power-Management setup section of the BIOS.
10-08-2001 07:22:49

New MessageRE:How to control (modified 0 times) laserfan
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Well, duh! Haven't been in the BIOS in a long time. Found it disabled it, but it doesn't work--backlight still comes on when the mouse is nudged. Shoulda worked; maybe Power Mgmt is being overridden by the software somehow. Guess I will live with it, as I recall it was NOT EASY to get this thing behaving properly.
10-08-2001 17:23:53

New MessageRE:How to control (modified 0 times) DblHelix
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Laserfan,
have you tried this ?
open up device manager and find the "Advanced Power management" device under system devices,
open the properties and check "disable in this hardware profile". This should turn
power management control back over to the BIOS.

Thats how I solved a similar problem with Windows ME on an IO
Worth a shot..

11-18-2001 08:56:26

New MessageRE:How to control (modified 0 times) laserfan
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Thanks, I tried it (turning off ACPI) and dinking w/the BIOS, but I ran into the "Backlight" problem (video went off but not backlight). That damn BIOS page is intimidating as heck; I went back to the prior ops which works well enuf I guess.
11-18-2001 16:03:41

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