On Thursday, 28. November 2002 02:06, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 12:54:48AM +0000, Calum Mackay wrote: > > Just out of interest, I have the following noted: > > > > fn+z cause bios to reread thermal sensors > > fn+d blank screen > > fn+h put hard disk to sleep > > fn+a suspend to disk > > > > am I missing any? > > On I4000 (bios A16): > fn+# Toggle CPU speed > > It seems to switch the CPU speed: Switching to "high" is accompanied by > a high-pitched beep, to "low" speed is accompanied by a low-pitched beep > (should that be written as buuurp?). I don't know whether this is > speed-step or the good old' "turbo" button re-invented (and > inverted...). > > When in low speed, battery time is improved quite a bit (I get about 90 > minutes more out of my 2 old batteries), and bogomips (according to the > command, not the kernel at boot) goes from ~ 1000 to ~ 230 > > Since keymaps around the world differ: I have a UK keyboard, with the # > key on the same row as ASDFGHJK: immediately to the left of [Enter]
Mistericaly, I have a I4k (bios A18) and fm+# is beeping high and low to. But the fn+F1 is only showing 600 Mhz. But with the low beep my curser is jumping uncontrolled. Looks like not to be a so usefull feature for me ;) good night rob
