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Posted by BillW50 on April 26, 2009, 1:38 pm
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Anybody knows of a screen off utility that only lights up the LCD with a
certain key press? As I listen to podcasts a lot and I don't need the
screen for long periods. But I do use the keyboard to pause and play
when I am leaving the room. And all of them turn on the screen when I do
this. My old trick was using an external monitor and just turn it on and
off. Although I am not using an external monitor that much anymore. TIA
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Bill
Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2
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Posted by Adrian C on April 26, 2009, 3:22 pm
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BillW50 wrote:
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> Anybody knows of a screen off utility that only lights up the LCD with a
> certain key press? As I listen to podcasts a lot and I don't need the
> screen for long periods. But I do use the keyboard to pause and play
> when I am leaving the room. And all of them turn on the screen when I do
> this. My old trick was using an external monitor and just turn it on and
> off. Although I am not using an external monitor that much anymore. TIA
>
Maybe use the laptop specific key combinations to select an external
monitor? That should send your internal screen black unless it's got
some ID stuff checking if the external screen exists just to give you a
'monitor not found' telling off...
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Posted by BillW50 on April 26, 2009, 5:24 pm
Please log in for more thread options Adrian C typed on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:22:45 +0100:
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> BillW50 wrote:
>> Anybody knows of a screen off utility that only lights up the LCD
>> with a certain key press? As I listen to podcasts a lot and I don't
>> need the screen for long periods. But I do use the keyboard to pause
>> and play when I am leaving the room. And all of them turn on the
>> screen when I do this. My old trick was using an external monitor
>> and just turn it on and off. Although I am not using an external
>> monitor that much anymore. TIA
> Maybe use the laptop specific key combinations to select an external
> monitor? That should send your internal screen black unless it's got
> some ID stuff checking if the external screen exists just to give you
> a 'monitor not found' telling off...
Hi Adrian! Yes my Gateways and EeePC are not fooled by no external
monitor connected. Although surprisingly, on this Gateway it works if it
is plugged into the external. And the external could be unplugged from
the AC too. I never tried it with just a cable not connected to a
monitor.
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Bill
Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2
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Posted by olfart on April 26, 2009, 5:41 pm
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> Adrian C typed on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:22:45 +0100:
>> BillW50 wrote:
>>> Anybody knows of a screen off utility that only lights up the LCD
>>> with a certain key press? As I listen to podcasts a lot and I don't
>>> need the screen for long periods. But I do use the keyboard to pause
>>> and play when I am leaving the room. And all of them turn on the
>>> screen when I do this. My old trick was using an external monitor
>>> and just turn it on and off. Although I am not using an external
>>> monitor that much anymore. TIA
>> Maybe use the laptop specific key combinations to select an external
>> monitor? That should send your internal screen black unless it's got
>> some ID stuff checking if the external screen exists just to give you
>> a 'monitor not found' telling off...
> Hi Adrian! Yes my Gateways and EeePC are not fooled by no external monitor
> connected. Although surprisingly, on this Gateway it works if it is
> plugged into the external. And the external could be unplugged from the AC
> too. I never tried it with just a cable not connected to a monitor.
you might need some kind of a dummy load which simulates the presense of and
ext monitor
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Posted by BillW50 on April 26, 2009, 6:10 pm
Please log in for more thread options olfart typed on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:41:45 -0400:
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>> Adrian C typed on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:22:45 +0100:
>>> BillW50 wrote:
>>>> Anybody knows of a screen off utility that only lights up the LCD
>>>> with a certain key press? As I listen to podcasts a lot and I don't
>>>> need the screen for long periods. But I do use the keyboard to
>>>> pause and play when I am leaving the room. And all of them turn on
>>>> the screen when I do this. My old trick was using an external
>>>> monitor and just turn it on and off. Although I am not using an
>>>> external monitor that much anymore. TIA
>>> Maybe use the laptop specific key combinations to select an external
>>> monitor? That should send your internal screen black unless it's got
>>> some ID stuff checking if the external screen exists just to give
>>> you a 'monitor not found' telling off...
>> Hi Adrian! Yes my Gateways and EeePC are not fooled by no external
>> monitor connected. Although surprisingly, on this Gateway it works
>> if it is plugged into the external. And the external could be
>> unplugged from the AC too. I never tried it with just a cable not
>> connected to a monitor.
> you might need some kind of a dummy load which simulates the presense
> of and ext monitor
Yes, it appears so. I just tried it with a VGA cable connected to
nothing. The screen flashes, but it bounces right back to the laptop's
LCD screen (what it does when nothing is connected). But even an
unplugged (AC-wise) monitor it works. It also has S-Video connection
too. Although I believe the problem is the same, as it has to be
connected to something. Although I don't believe it has to be powered
up.
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Bill
Gateway MX6124 - Windows XP SP2
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> certain key press? As I listen to podcasts a lot and I don't need the
> screen for long periods. But I do use the keyboard to pause and play
> when I am leaving the room. And all of them turn on the screen when I do
> this. My old trick was using an external monitor and just turn it on and
> off. Although I am not using an external monitor that much anymore. TIA
>