Ambient Illumination in XP

[Paul Caldwell]

I have installed boot camp 1.1 on a 17" macbook pro, so far I can't seem to get the ambient illumination to work. It works fine on the mac side, anyone have an answer? Does it work or not and if so what settings have I missed?

Thanks
Paul Caldwell

[Stan Jirman]

It's not supported (yet). There isn't a driver for that.

[Paul Caldwell]

Stan

You are the man.

What a bummer!. I wonder if Apple did this intentionally. And I guess that it would have to be an Apple driver, not a 3rd party one.

I personnally love that feature.

If you are running with parrellels, i.e. virtual, then I assume it will still work?

Thanks
Paul C

[Stan Jirman]

I wonder if Apple did this intentionally. And I guess that it would have to be an Apple driver, not a 3rd party one.
I don't think "intentional" is the right word here; when I got my MacPro, half the really essential drivers didn't exist yet. A week later it was fixed. I think they are just focusing on the really important stuff, and the illuminated keyboard, while neat, hardly qualifies as that :)

Yes, it will work with Parallels.

[Asher Kelman]

Paul,

What are you using XP for? Do you run CS2 in the PC environment, I heard it was very fast?

I'd like to know if you or anyone else has compared CS2 speed using the two operating systems on the same Macbook Pro?

Asher

[Paul Caldwell]

Hello Asher

Actually I am all XP in my production. I wanted the MacBook Pro mainly since I still feel it's overall the best design on the market. I had a 17" powerbook and loved it, but to be honest, it was quite slow especially the processing. I had the 2nd version of the processors, I can't remember which they were, but not the 1.0 GHz.

I will load CS2 on this box soon and be able to compare it to several other machines. I only have 1GB in this machine right now and had been waiting to do any testing until I got 2GB in it.


Stan,

I know that they probably didn't do it on purpose, however as it's a very unique feature to any laptop, I am surprised they didn't. Maybe they will get around to it with the fully supported release, whenever that comes out.

Thanks

[Paul Caldwell]

On another forum I found this program.

It will enable the keyboard ambient lighting!

http://dmitri.v.googlepages.com/macbooktraytools

Paul C