30" ACD: Brightness controls in Windows?

miniConvert

macrumors 68040

Original poster

• May 22, 2006

• #1

Hey folks,

Are the brightness controls on the side of the 30" ACD supposed to work when it's hooked up to a Windows box? Perhaps they rely on Apple Mac's to function? Incase you hadn't guessed, they don't work in this case, and I don't have a Mac I can hook it up to.

Chars!

 

matticus008

macrumors 68040

• May 23, 2006

• #2

Yeah, they won't work on a PC. You have to use the Control Panel and adjust gamma and/or brightness manually.

 

Josias

macrumors 68000

• May 26, 2006

• #3

Man that stinks.🙁 This is why sysprefs is so easily acessible and simple on macs.

 

matticus008

macrumors 68040

• May 26, 2006

• #4

Josias said:

Man that stinks.🙁 This is why sysprefs is so easily acessible and simple on macs.

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To be fair, it's two clicks away on both OSes and it would have been nice if Apple had provided hardware controls.

 

Josias

macrumors 68000

• May 26, 2006

• #5

Well, to go further into controls and stuff, it is both faster and way easier in OSX.

 

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glitch44

macrumors 65816

• May 26, 2006

• #6

miniConvert said:

Hey folks,

Are the brightness controls on the side of the 30" ACD supposed to work when it's hooked up to a Windows box? Perhaps they rely on Apple Mac's to function? Incase you hadn't guessed, they don't work in this case, and I don't have a Mac I can hook it up to.

Chars!

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custom drivers that supposedly allow brightness controls for ACD on XP.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/winacd/