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Keyboard utilities for Sony VAIO PCG-TR2
I forgot to back up the recovery partition for an old VAIO PCG-TR2 before trashing it. Now I lost the ability to adjust the sound volume and monitor brightness via hot-keys. Any help to find relevant (keyboard?) drivers would be appreciated. -- @~@ You have the right to remain silence. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and farces be with you! /( _ )\ (Fedora 15 i686) Linux 3.0.4 ^ ^ 22:56:01 up 5 days 2:09 0 users load average: 0.09 0.05 0.06 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Keyboard utilities for Sony VAIO PCG-TR2
Man-wai Chang wrote in news:j6a5eb$6vq$1@dont-
email.me: I forgot to back up the recovery partition for an old VAIO PCG-TR2 before trashing it. Now I lost the ability to adjust the sound volume and monitor brightness via hot-keys. Any help to find relevant (keyboard?) drivers would be appreciated. What operating system? -- Bear http://bearware.info |
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Keyboard utilities for Sony VAIO PCG-TR2
Man-wai Chang wrote:
I forgot to back up the recovery partition for an old VAIO PCG-TR2 before trashing it. Now I lost the ability to adjust the sound volume and monitor brightness via hot-keys. Any help to find relevant (keyboard?) drivers would be appreciated. There is not much of value here. There isn't a complete set of drivers that I can see. http://www.sony-asia.com/support/product/PCG-TR2 Didn't you burn recovery media ? (Usually, the laptop prompts you after a day or two, to burn recovery discs.) I think my laptop claimed to be making a driver CD, but I've never bothered to look at it. A hot key driver, probably isn't a regular driver. Some of the software, associated with HID (human interface device) hardware, uses a filter driver, which shims into the software stack, and intercepts the byte stream. Something like that can be used for hot keys. In other words, a standard Microsoft driver would already be there for the keyboard, and an "invisible" shim, using UpperFilter/LowerFilter would be added by some hotkey software, to gain access to the byte stream. So it's not likely to be a regular driver as such, as it doesn't "make the keyboard work". The keyboard works without it, except special function keys don't do anything. Paul |
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Keyboard utilities for Sony VAIO PCG-TR2
I forgot to back up the recovery partition for an old VAIO PCG-TR2
before trashing it. Now I lost the ability to adjust the sound volume and monitor brightness via hot-keys. What operating system? WinXP -- @~@ You have the right to remain silence. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and farces be with you! /( _ )\ (Fedora 15 i686) Linux 3.0.4 ^ ^ 22:56:01 up 5 days 2:09 0 users load average: 0.09 0.05 0.06 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Keyboard utilities for Sony VAIO PCG-TR2
There is not much of value here. There isn't a complete set of drivers
that I can see. http://www.sony-asia.com/support/product/PCG-TR2 I could find the drivers for PCG-TR2A: http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/mod...3#/downloadTab ... but the hotkey utility was not there. The hotkey utility was NOT considered a driver by Sony. would be added by some hotkey software, to gain access to the byte stream. So it's not likely to be a regular driver as such, as it doesn't "make the keyboard work". The keyboard works without it, except special function keys don't do anything. Thanks. After over 2 hours of searching, I found a mainland China website called Driver Sky, and located the 5 applications in the following link: http://bbs.drvsky.com/simple/?t130.html Scroll down (or use Find) to "【适合PCG-TR系列】". -- @~@ You have the right to remain silence. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and farces be with you! /( _ )\ (Fedora 15 i686) Linux 3.0.4 ^ ^ 22:56:01 up 5 days 2:09 0 users load average: 0.09 0.05 0.06 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Keyboard utilities for Sony VAIO PCG-TR2
Man-wai Chang wrote:
Thanks. After over 2 hours of searching, I found a mainland China website called Driver Sky, and located the 5 applications in the following link: http://bbs.drvsky.com/simple/?t130.html Scroll down (or use Find) to "【适合PCG-TR系列】". I'm glad you can read it :-) I can't figure out what you're supposed to click, to begin a download on this page. Not much different than the other driver sites, where you can't figure it out either. Just a slight language barrier for me. http://www.drvsky.com/sony/HotKey_Ut....3.0.10080.htm Paul |
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Keyboard utilities for Sony VAIO PCG-TR2
I'm glad you can read it :-) I can't figure out what you're supposed
to click, to begin a download on this page. Not much different than the other driver sites, where you can't figure it out either. Just a slight language barrier for me. http://www.drvsky.com/sony/HotKey_Ut....3.0.10080.htm Challenge: Find the same utility from Sony's websites!! It seems that Sony moved all files of out-dated VAIO models to a secret place. -- @~@ You have the right to remain silence. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and farces be with you! /( _ )\ (Fedora 15 i686) Linux 3.0.4 ^ ^ 22:56:01 up 5 days 2:09 0 users load average: 0.09 0.05 0.06 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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Keyboard utilities for Sony VAIO PCG-TR2
Man-wai Chang wrote:
Challenge: Find the same utility from Sony's websites!! It seems that Sony moved all files of out-dated VAIO models to a secret place. Try finding AMD support for five year old chips. You'll find tens of thousands of links scattered across the net "to" AMD support, but all of them end up dead-ending at an all but useless AMD support portal that does nothing but redirect to itself. *******s. Jon |
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Keyboard utilities for Sony VAIO PCG-TR2
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:35:04 +0800, Man-wai Chang
put finger to keyboard and composed: I'm glad you can read it :-) I can't figure out what you're supposed to click, to begin a download on this page. Not much different than the other driver sites, where you can't figure it out either. Just a slight language barrier for me. http://www.drvsky.com/sony/HotKey_Ut....3.0.10080.htm Challenge: Find the same utility from Sony's websites!! It seems that Sony moved all files of out-dated VAIO models to a secret place. Is this it? ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/pub/VAIO/HOTKEY/ - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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Keyboard utilities for Sony VAIO PCG-TR2
Is this it?
ftp://ftp.vaio-link.com/pub/VAIO/HOTKEY/ Thanks!! I failed to find Sony's ftp server... -- @~@ You have the right to remain silence. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and farces be with you! /( _ )\ (Fedora 15 i686) Linux 3.0.4 ^ ^ 22:56:01 up 5 days 2:09 0 users load average: 0.09 0.05 0.06 不借貸! 不詐騙! 不援交! 不打交! 不打劫! 不自殺! 請考慮綜援 (CSSA): http://www.swd.gov.hk/tc/index/site_...sub_addressesa |
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