I would reccomend a clean re-install of leopard or just take it to an
apple store if its still in warranty
On 2008-03-20 01:02:23 +0000, dumbstruck <dumbstruc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
> Here are some quirks found in 17" macbook pro osx 10.5.2 in an upgrade
> from earlier 17" powerbook. There are also some surprises on the
> upside, such as amazingly faster handling of some graphics and
> better software functionality, but...
>
> 1) auto brightness see-saw:
>
> There seems a dysfunctional interaction between screen and keyboard
> autobrightness which requires you to turn off screen autobright
> setting. As I recall, as surroundings get darker, the screen goes to
> a
> blazing ultrawhite which tricks the keyboard brightness to set itself
> way dark to the point you can't see. If you compensate the keyboard
> brightness back up, I believe that signals the screen to get brighter
> as well (or maybe I turn the screen darker, or somehow things
> automatically swing from one unbearable extreme to the other). Some
> of
> this is inevitable, but I am saying it is out of control. BTW I hate
> the harshness of white background... it seemed to be easier to warp
> it
> to a pre-defined more mellow color in the past.
>
> 2) sleep recovery can seem brain damaged in multiple ways:
>
> A) If you open the cover and the cursor isn't already inside the
> password box ready for you to type, you are entering the valley of
> doom and should reboot. You'll probably have a crippled air****t and
> can't even paste your network name (that it lost) into the "other
> network" name box(although will accept typed input). All should go
> back to normal after a restart.
>
> B) The way air****t loses track of "remembered" closed network names
> seems to happen intermittantly after going to sleep, which I have
> posted about elsewhere.
>
> C) The following also happened with older versions... if you put it
> to
> sleep under certain conditions, the darn thing will not wake up or
> respond to any keyboard or powerbutton input. The "sleep" light will
> go out, but screen stays dark. Possibly the computer is alive, but
> the
> screen refuses to increase brightness from zero. Anyway, it seems to
> need pulling power and removing the battery to restart.
>
> Not sure how to reproduce this, but try running itunes with the
> screen
> totally darkened. Then tweak the energy saver settings and screen
> saver so it goes into various modes when you put it to sleep. Another
> glitch is that I believe if the keyboard was dark at sleep time, you
> cannot turn it back up to enable you to type in a password. When
> working properly, all it allows is the screen brightness to be set
> (upwards) to the lowest setting, so you might just barely see the
> keys
> in reflection.
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