Mac brightness question....

I was just wondering... I tried increasing and decreasing the brightness of my mbp but it seems that it's not doing anything... when I press command+F1 or F2 there's nothing showing in my screen... is that the way it is???

This is my 1st mac so i really dont know if it's normal or not.

 

That's not normal...usually when you press F1 or F2 a transparent gray box with the Brightness icon will show up on the screen and add or take away boxes as you press F1 or F2. Try pressing F4 and F5 (to adjust the sound) and see if you see a transparent gray box with the sound icon on the screen.

 

ohhh its working now... dont know what happened.... weird....

anyway I'm glad it's working....

 

Good to hear. So you see the transparent gray box that comes up everytime you adjust brightness, sound or eject a disc with the Eject button (F13, not that it exists )?

 

My brightness doesn't work either with Cmnd+F1/F2, it does if you press Cmnd then let go. The volume works works while I'm holding Cmnd.

 

MBP by default set the F-keys to hardware implementations. You'd need to press F1 or F2 or whatever without holding down anything else. Holding fn-F1, etc., will be the same as trying to use the software implementation of it (i.e. whatever it's bound to in the software you're in).

If you want, you can go into system preferences > keyboard and mouse > keyboard, and then turn on software implementations of the F-keys by default. Then, you'd need to hold fn and f1 or fn-f2 to adjust brightness.

 

taelrak's right... dont hold the command button... just press f1 or f2... this one of the little things a switcher has to know.....

 

I don't hold it in. I just thought you were and thats why it wasn't working.