1-6 Overview of the Versa Note
Quick Tour of the Notebook
Please take a moment to become familiar with the location and purpose of the
controls, LED status panel, connectors and ports, which are illustrated in this
section. Refer to the Versa Note User’s Guide for further information on
features.
The Front of the Notebook
Open the notebook by pushing the latch in the centre to the right to release and
tilt the LCD cover up. The following sections describe the front features
including the LCD display panel, keyboard, glidepad, status LED, and power
switch.
Colour LCD Display Panel
The LCD panel can be SVGA (800x600) or XGA (1024x768) or active-matrix
TFT colour liquid crystal display (LCD). You can adjust and tilt (up to 180°) the
LCD screen panel to your desired viewing position.
The Versa Note Series uses a 128-bit PCI bus VGA graphics controller with
2MB of video memory. All TFT SVGA or XGA Colour LCD models can
support up to 64K colours (65,536 colours) or 16-bit high colour. The notebook
also supports simultaneous display of the LCD with the external VGA monitor.
The LCD screen also uses CCFT (Cold Cathode Fluorescent Tube) backlighting
which consumes much of the electrical power of the notebook. To save battery
power, the system has an advanced power management feature that switches off
the LCD when there is no system activity for a predetermined amount of time.
Adjust the brightness and contrast level of the LCD by pressing the display
control hot-keys. The hot-keys are activated by pressing the
Fn
key in
conjunction with another key:
Fn
+
F8
Key = Increases the brightness of the LCD display
Fn
+
F9
Key = Decreases the brightness of the LCD display
Power and Suspend Status LED
Three LEDs at the bottom of the LCD front panel indicate power and suspend
status and are visible even when the cover is closed.
Power and Suspend Status LED
