The IBM PalmTop PC110

Using PS2.EXE: Miscellaneous

PS2 Command categories

*Information*	*Power Management*	*Hardware Configuration*
*Reset*	*Video*	*Miscellaneous*

Miscellaneous

CLick

Values: ON or OFf
Type: basic

Enables or disables the keyboard click sound made whenever any key is pressed.

Cover switch

Values: Enable or Disable
Type: basic

Controls the effect of closing the PC110's cover (lid, screen, call it what you will). If set to Enable, closing the cover puts the PC110 into standby mode; if set to Disable it will have no effect.

Be careful if you disable this feature. I did this on my machine, then forgot and just closed the cover and walked away from it whilst it was on mains power. I came back to find a very warm PC110! The screen backlight had been on all the time, since the system did not enter standby mode, and it could only dissipate its heat through the keyboard.

_@FNkey

Values: xx or xx=yy (where xx and yy are two-digit hex numbers)
Type: advanced

Unknown. Either it allows you to remap function keys for specific (BIOS?) functions, or it was just left behind by the developers...

If anyone has more information on this particular command, please let me know.

_@Keyboard Response

Values: Normal or Long
Type: advanced

Changes the keyboard repeat rate when a key is held down.

_@STATus

Values: Auto or Time or Battery
Type: advanced

Controls the infomration displayed on the LCD status panel at the front of the machine whenever the machine is running on batteries and suspended. Time causes the current time to be displayed, Battery causes the battery charge details to be displayed, and Auto causes the display to alternate between the time and battery status.

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