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Problem description: I bought a second-hand Sony VAIO All-in-one PC. The monitor's LEDs are cranked up to like a billion loving lumens and it actually hurts to look at. There are no hardware buttons to reduce brightness and the ONLY method offered by Sony is to use Fn+F5. But this second hand machine was sold without a keyboard and how many 3rd party keyboards have loving Fn keys? Attempted fixes: Sony support is a joke. Also, windows on-screen keyboard has an Fn key, but it doesn't work to change brightness. Recent changes: N/A -- Operating system: Win7 64 System specs: Sony VAIO VPCL214FX Location: US I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes. Here's the user manual.
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# ? Jul 22, 2014 15:11 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 11:55 |
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I looked up key remapping software, but unfortunately Fn combinations are hardware-level and can't be remapped in software. Double unfortunately, I think this means that even third-party keyboards with Fn keys are going to have the wrong Fn mappings (like, there's no guarantee that Fn-F5 from a Lenovo or Apple keyboard will send the same keypress as Fn-F5 on a Sony keyboard). So you need a Sony keyboard. At least long enough to use a key remapper to see if it can capture the Fn-F5 combination (it may not be able to) so you can set it to a different, more sane keystroke to do the same thing.
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# ? Jul 22, 2014 22:57 |
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If you have the right drivers installed, Windows should put a brightness slider at the bottom of your Power Options screen
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# ? Jul 23, 2014 18:34 |
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Well, I found a solution, but first, gently caress Sony for designing something this stupid. So as I said, the on-screen menu does not provide any picture or brightness adjustment while in PC mode. But it does have HDMI input, and while in monitor mode suddenly on-screen controls appear! Since the computer also has HDMI output, a $6 patch cable later and... Seriously a person shouldn't have to jump through that many hoops for something so simple.
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# ? Jul 24, 2014 18:52 |