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    163.44 question

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by paOol, Sep 13, 2007.

  1. paOol

    paOol Notebook Consultant

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    anyway to get the brightness to work with these drivers?
    i mean Fn+home/Fn+end.
     
    paOol, Sep 13, 2007
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    nurio Notebook Guru

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    Yes, I have 163.44 installed and the brightness works
     
    nurio, Sep 13, 2007
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  3. paOol

    paOol Notebook Consultant

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    did u ever install the lenovo ones? before or after
    i did a clean install, followed by the 163.44, and my brightness doesnt work.
     
    paOol, Sep 13, 2007
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    paOol, if you snoop around a bit you can find a couple similiar posts of people with this problem. It seems that if you installed the 163.44 drivers ON TOP of the Quadro drivers, then you keep the brightness control. When you do a clean install of the quadro driver first, it erases a file or feature which results in the loss of FN key brightness control. I haven't had time to try this yet so I'm looking for the proper procedure and hoping that it doesn't effect gaming performance to overwrite the quadro drivers rather than a clean install.
     
    shredman, Sep 14, 2007
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    I was having this problem also thanks for the advice
     
    gridtalker, Sep 14, 2007
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  6. paOol

    paOol Notebook Consultant

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    ok, im going to try that right now,
    i'll uninstall the 163.44, then install the quadro, and re-install 163.44.

    i'll post the results here.
     
    paOol, Sep 14, 2007
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    paOol Notebook Consultant

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    i tried it, and it doesnt work.
    i also tried 101.29 drivers.

    so now im back to the lenovo ones.
     
    paOol, Sep 14, 2007
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