Help needed for a laptop driver

Hi, I have done a clean install of the OS Win XP Home, on a laptop I only
had to install one driver for the video and it worked fine but now I need
help to find the driver or application that controlls the keyboard like the
"Fn" key as it dosnt work at the moment - ide like to be able to operate the
brightness and others on the keyboard. What I have is a Toshiba Satellite
A20 Laptop.

Regards
GK

In article .com, "Gabriel Knight" wrote:
Hi, I have done a clean install of the OS Win XP Home, on a laptop I only
had to install one driver for the video and it worked fine but now I need
help to find the driver or application that controlls the keyboard like the
"Fn" key as it dosnt work at the moment - ide like to be able to operate the
brightness and others on the keyboard. What I have is a Toshiba Satellite
A20 Laptop.

Regards
GK




Go here and search for your model under Product Support

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/t...t/jsp/home.jsp

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:13:00 +0000, hhh wrote:

It depends a LOT on what you are looking to do. To improve a laptop or
netbook, probably a good idea to install a SSD. To improve a desktop,
not so good. I thought I'd greatly improve my boot time by switching
to a SSD. Well, it takes me 90 sec to boot from a cold start to Win
Vista on my computer (using a 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM drive)....
installing the SSD lowered that time to 60 sec. I had foolishly
expected something like an improvement to 10 to 15 sec total boot
time!

So I ran some performance tests, on a single (relatively cheap 7200
RPM SATA) drive, a pair of 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA Seagates configured
RAID 0, and the SSD. As you would expect, performance of the SSD was
better than the others..... but not "that" much better, considering
the SSD price is nearly $200 for 120 GB and you can buy a pair of 500
GB Seagates for $100 and have a 1 TB effective drive..

To see the charts of the tests, go he

http://www.photoshop.com/users/crhof...82d205a0081057

Great analysis by Charlie. I too installed SSDs in a netbook and desktop
and was underwhelmed by the performance increase. For a desktop, much
better to install a 2- or 3-disk RAID0 setup...you will see a real
performance boost then.

Charlie Hoffpauir writes:

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:13:00 +0000, hhh wrote:

It depends a LOT on what you are looking to do. To improve a laptop or
netbook, probably a good idea to install a SSD. To improve a desktop,
not so good. I thought I'd greatly improve my boot time by switching
to a SSD. Well, it takes me 90 sec to boot from a cold start to Win
Vista on my computer (using a 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM drive)....
installing the SSD lowered that time to 60 sec. I had foolishly
expected something like an improvement to 10 to 15 sec total boot
time!

So I ran some performance tests, on a single (relatively cheap 7200
RPM SATA) drive, a pair of 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA Seagates configured
RAID 0, and the SSD. As you would expect, performance of the SSD was
better than the others..... but not "that" much better, considering
the SSD price is nearly $200 for 120 GB and you can buy a pair of 500
GB Seagates for $100 and have a 1 TB effective drive..

To see the charts of the tests, go he

http://www.photoshop.com/users/crhof...82d205a0081057

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On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 10:50:28 -0500, Charlie Hoffpauir
wrote:

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:13:00 +0000, hhh wrote:

It depends a LOT on what you are looking to do. To improve a laptop or
netbook, probably a good idea to install a SSD. To improve a desktop,
not so good. I thought I'd greatly improve my boot time by switching
to a SSD. Well, it takes me 90 sec to boot from a cold start to Win
Vista on my computer (using a 500 GB SATA 7200 RPM drive)....
installing the SSD lowered that time to 60 sec. I had foolishly
expected something like an improvement to 10 to 15 sec total boot
time!

So I ran some performance tests, on a single (relatively cheap 7200
RPM SATA) drive, a pair of 500 GB 7200 RPM SATA Seagates configured
RAID 0, and the SSD. As you would expect, performance of the SSD was
better than the others..... but not "that" much better, considering
the SSD price is nearly $200 for 120 GB and you can buy a pair of 500
GB Seagates for $100 and have a 1 TB effective drive..

To see the charts of the tests, go he

http://www.photoshop.com/users/crhof...82d205a0081057

I built this box with a SSD. The responsiveness is incredible.

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:26:15 -0700, Loren Pechtel
wrote:

I built this box with a SSD. The responsiveness is incredible.

Incredible is a nice term. Can you give us something more specific? As
compared to....?

My old SWTPC with a Motorola 6800 processor was incredible too.

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to be Charlie Hoffpauir typed:

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:26:15 -0700, Loren Pechtel
wrote:

I built this box with a SSD. The responsiveness is incredible.

Incredible is a nice term. Can you give us something more specific? As
compared to....?

In general, moving from a rotational drive to a new SSD is almost like
the old days where buying a new computer was actually significantly
faster than your old one (or at least when clock speeds regularly
doubled)

Even on modern computers you still spend a lot of time in a "click and
wait..." state, especially starting large applications or similar that
your computer can't predict (and therefore caching can't help you)

The different really is incredible, responsiveness is often far more
significant to the user experience than raw speed.

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On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:31:19 -0500, Charlie Hoffpauir
wrote:

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:26:15 -0700, Loren Pechtel
wrote:

I built this box with a SSD. The responsiveness is incredible.

Incredible is a nice term. Can you give us something more specific? As
compared to....?

The machine it replaced. The lack of seek time really makes a
difference when pulling a bunch of small things off the disk--and a
bunch of small things is the normal structure of anything that uses
plugins.