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How to control brightness in Windows on LED ACD

Cycom

Cycom

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Mar 27, 2007
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Ok, so I'm planning on buying and LED Cinema Display to go with my Mac Pro. I have a few issues before I pull the trigger...

Currently, I'm using a 23 inch Acrylic Cinema Display and have found that there is no way to adjust overall monitor brightness. Even using the ATi control panel (my Mac Pro has an Apple branded ATi 4870), there are no true brightness controls either on the software side in Windows (I haven't found a way to change brightness in Windows like I do in System Preferences in OSX) or on the hardware side (no buttons on the monitor itself).

Basically, as soon as I use bootcamp to reset into Windows, I notice that the screen immediately goes to the lowest brightness (even though I was running the max in OSX before switching) settings as soon as I go into the desktop. Playing games like this is irritating.

I know the LED Cinema Display also has no brightness buttons on it, so will I still be SOL?
 
In the Boot Camp preferences menu (found in the Boot Camp tray icon), there's a brightness slider. I have not found out how to make the brightness buttons on the keyboard work, though.
 
integrat.ethis said:
In the Boot Camp preferences menu (found in the Boot Camp tray icon), there's a brightness slider. I have not found out how to make the brightness buttons on the keyboard work, though.
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The Boot Camp drivers should make the keyboard buttons work. If they don't, try installing the Boot Camp drivers again and make sure that you haven't unticked (Fn+F1 for extra functions).
 
integrat.ethis said:
In the Boot Camp preferences menu (found in the Boot Camp tray icon), there's a brightness slider. I have not found out how to make the brightness buttons on the keyboard work, though.
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There was/is no brightness slider in the preferences. I had to download a third party patch that adds ACD support to the Windows control panel. Problem solved!

Thanks for the help anyway!
 
Kilamite said:
The Boot Camp drivers should make the keyboard buttons work. If they don't, try installing the Boot Camp drivers again and make sure that you haven't unticked (Fn+F1 for extra functions).
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The problem is that the buttons control the laptop brightness, and not the ACD brightness.
 
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