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    How to change the look of the OSD?

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Bhima, Apr 8, 2011.

  1. Bhima

    Bhima Notebook Consultant

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    Anyone know how to manipulate the on screen display images for brightness, volume etc? If I could at least find where the heck those images are saved and at what file type I could make a more custom/cleaner looking on screen display.

    EDIT: I think it has something to do with the Hotkey.exe application.

    EDIT2: Somehow... some way the images I think are fully embedded into their respective DLL files: ie. brightness.DLL. Of course, I have no idea how to manipulate that.
     
    Bhima, Apr 8, 2011
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  2. mythlogic

    mythlogic Company Representative

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    Yea good luck =)

    We've spent many a weeks trying to take that thing apart to make it better. Its a lot of .Net code I can tell you that, it interfaces directly with the ACPI subsystem that traps certain ACPI codes coming from the EC. Thats about what I can tell you about it. Some models of Clevo you can change the interface, some you can't. Its up to what it "detects" but you can't fake it or your model will have horrendous performance and battery life as the EC will be told its a different model.
     
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  3. Bhima

    Bhima Notebook Consultant

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    Crazy. If some computer whiz wants to figure it out I can work on some better looking OSD graphics. Any .Net wiz kids out there?
     
    Bhima, Apr 8, 2011
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  4. Kevin

    Kevin Egregious

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    I'll PayPal $10 to the person who figures it out.
     
    Kevin, Apr 8, 2011
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  5. Bhima

    Bhima Notebook Consultant

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    Bump because I want to see Kevin pay up ;)
     
    Bhima, Apr 9, 2011
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    hizzaah Notebook Virtuoso

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    Im curious as well.. Maybe there's a better forum for this? The OS and software perhaps? Maybe a non-sager owner could help out
     
    hizzaah, Apr 9, 2011
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