Input remapper and boot camp 1.3 screen backlighting

[Paul2660]

I originally posted this in the Windows forum. I missed this boot camp forum.

Since I posted this, I done a little work. Basically, it seems that input remapper (most current version) has a direct conflict with the new boot camp 1.3 keyboard backlight driver. Once installed, you will start to get a blinking light on the keyboard and eventually the keyboard goes out. There also may be an issue with the New Apple Brightness.exe which also loads. I had long ago disabled the older version of the brightness.exe that came with the earlier versions of boot camp as it caused me to come up and immediately reboot about 50% of the time.

 

I finally uninstalled the most current version of input remapper 1.0.03. but there were still some issues, so I reinstalled boot camp 1.3. This got me a more stable machine, however without input remapper, you can't control the fans in XP and you will start to overheat. Same old problem of the first version of boot camp on the macbook pro. I still need a solution to control the fans, as for now I am just booting into OSX, starting SMCfan control, then rebooting to XP. As long as you don't power off, the fans stay at the same speed you left them in OSX. It's still a major oversight on Apple's side as you can easily hit temps of 75 to 80 degrees C if you leave the machine on for over 1 1/2 hours with normal use. If are charging the battery it will get hotter sooner.

 

Hoping that the writer of input remapper sees this and can write a fix. I realize it's freeware but it's the only thing out there I know of that will control the fans in XP.

 

Thanks

Paul C

 

 

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I have a MBP, original series, July 2006. XP Pro Sv Pac 2.0 installed. On the Mac side I have 10.4.8.

 

I just ran the upgrade to boot camp 1.3 (mainly due to the constant trackpad issues of the earlier versions). I had left this issue alone since everything else worked and I didn't want to introduce anymore problems.

 

After the installation process, I was pleasantly surprised to see the machine come back up. So far the only issue I have is that there appears to be a conflict between input remapper and the keyboard backlighting (which Apple started supporting in boot camp 1.3). My version of input remapper is 0.1A which I am sure is older than the most current.

 

I hesitate to remove it since it's the only tool I have found that will control the fans on this machine. The fans IMO are critical and I don't want to lose that control if I upgrade to a more current version.

 

Does anyone have any ideas? or suggestions?

So far all else is working fine.

 

Thanks

Paul Caldwell

[Beliyaal]

I originally posted this in the Windows forum. I missed this boot camp forum.

Since I posted this, I done a little work. Basically, it seems that input remapper (most current version) has a direct conflict with the new boot camp 1.3 keyboard backlight driver. Once installed, you will start to get a blinking light on the keyboard and eventually the keyboard goes out. There also may be an issue with the New Apple Brightness.exe which also loads. I had long ago disabled the older version of the brightness.exe that came with the earlier versions of boot camp as it caused me to come up and immediately reboot about 50% of the time.

 

I finally uninstalled the most current version of input remapper 1.0.03. but there were still some issues, so I reinstalled boot camp 1.3. This got me a more stable machine, however without input remapper, you can't control the fans in XP and you will start to overheat. Same old problem of the first version of boot camp on the macbook pro. I still need a solution to control the fans, as for now I am just booting into OSX, starting SMCfan control, then rebooting to XP. As long as you don't power off, the fans stay at the same speed you left them in OSX. It's still a major oversight on Apple's side as you can easily hit temps of 75 to 80 degrees C if you leave the machine on for over 1 1/2 hours with normal use. If are charging the battery it will get hotter sooner.

 

Hoping that the writer of input remapper sees this and can write a fix. I realize it's freeware but it's the only thing out there I know of that will control the fans in XP.

 

Thanks

Paul C

 

 

Original note contents below

 

 

 

I have a MBP, original series, July 2006. XP Pro Sv Pac 2.0 installed. On the Mac side I have 10.4.8.

 

I just ran the upgrade to boot camp 1.3 (mainly due to the constant trackpad issues of the earlier versions). I had left this issue alone since everything else worked and I didn't want to introduce anymore problems.

 

After the installation process, I was pleasantly surprised to see the machine come back up. So far the only issue I have is that there appears to be a conflict between input remapper and the keyboard backlighting (which Apple started supporting in boot camp 1.3). My version of input remapper is 0.1A which I am sure is older than the most current.

 

I hesitate to remove it since it's the only tool I have found that will control the fans on this machine. The fans IMO are critical and I don't want to lose that control if I upgrade to a more current version.

 

Does anyone have any ideas? or suggestions?

So far all else is working fine.

 

Thanks

Paul Caldwell

 

If you can live without the Apple keyboard drivers and keyboard backlight drivers the newest version 1.0.04 should work.

[Paul2660]

Thanks for the reply and the updated version. I have read the sticky and will pull the new version down.

 

One question, you mentioned "live without the Apple keyboard drivers", I am assuming your new release only pulls off the keyboard not the trackpad drivers? With bootcamp 1.3 Apple finally fixed the trackpad drivers and I didn't want to lose those. MPB, XP Professional, 1st edition of MPB July 06

 

Also, you mentioned the Apple Keyboard backlight drivers, am I correct in assuming that your keyboard backlight drivers (which I prefer) will instal over the Apple version?

 

Once again thanks, great job.

 

Paul Caldwell

[Beliyaal]

Thanks for the reply and the updated version. I have read the sticky and will pull the new version down.

 

One question, you mentioned "live without the Apple keyboard drivers", I am assuming your new release only pulls off the keyboard not the trackpad drivers? With bootcamp 1.3 Apple finally fixed the trackpad drivers and I didn't want to lose those. MPB, XP Professional, 1st edition of MPB July 06

 

Also, you mentioned the Apple Keyboard backlight drivers, am I correct in assuming that your keyboard backlight drivers (which I prefer) will instal over the Apple version?

 

Once again thanks, great job.

 

Paul Caldwell

 

The trackpad drivers are not touched.

 

Apple keyboard backlight is implemented through apples keyboard manager and interferes with Input Remapper so both cannot be installed at the same time. Input Remapper automatic keyboard backlight isn't perfect (it works fine if you only use it manually). Actually I don't use the feature myself so I don't know exactly how to make it better and thus it has become a low priority. You shouldn't have to look at the keyboard anyway

[Paul2660]

Thanks, for the reply. The real key IMO of input remapper is of course the fan control. The MBP on it's own never increases the speed of the fans and the machine will eventually shutdown. Now in real terms, I have to be doing a lot of processing on it as I believe I have had mine get to over 75 degrees C, but of course that's way too hot. With the fan control on, I can easily stay around 38 degrees to 45.

 

The backlighting is a nice feature if you work in low lighting conditions as I often do with photography.

 

Once again thanks for the info and time.

Paul Caldwell

[FGLRXandYou]

Since the trackpad isn't touched, why are you able to modify the mouse acceleration, curious?

 

 

I'm currently attempting to figure out a way to enable double-tap-right-click functionality, so, exploring options.