E521 Keyboard key problem / 3D Laptop

[Simon Gao]

I don't see anything like PowerOn in BIOS you can turn off/on.

Simon

James_F_Hall at dell.com wrote:
> I noticed a similar issue on D620 laptops, when I turned off the
> speedstep function in the BIOS. Once I turned it back on the keypresses
> returned to normal behavior. This was on RHEL5 Beta 2 and RC1.
>
> I don't have an E521 or a similar AMD box nearby to see if there is a
> similar BIOS function to turn off/on "speedstep" (I think AMD calls it
> PowerNow!). I'd check that and toggle it, see what happens.
>
> Also, I have ran SLED10 on the Precision M65 with the 3D effects
> (compiz/xgl) turned on, and it ran quite well. In fact on my trip out to
> Provo for SLES10 readiness I had it on a M65 and people at the airport
> commented positively about the interface. I showed it off to the
> engineers once there and they seemed quite happy with their own product
> :).
>
> --Jim
>
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