Starting Out with Your OmniBook Special Features The Input/Output Menu of the SCU COM Port... Serial Port addresses and interrupts. LPT Ports... Printer Port addresses and interrupts. LPT Type... Standard AT (Centronics) or Bi-directional (PS/2). Keyboard Setup... • “Key Delay”: How long a key must be held down before characters start repeating. • “Key Repeat Rate”: Once repeating starts, how many characters per second are repeated. • “Keyboard Numlock” sets whether Num Lock (Nm Lk) is on or off at boot- up (system restart). External Devices... • “VGA Display device”.
If you have an external display connected, you can choose to have the display appear on just the external display , or on both the external and the OmniBook displays. • “Force recognition of external VGA”. If the OmniBook does not recognize your external display, this setting will force it to. • “Enable External FN Key”. If an external keyboard without an FN key is connected, then pressing CTRL+ALT on the external keyboard is equivalent to pressing FN on the OmniBook keyboard. • “Ignore External Pointing Device”. If you want to use the internal mouse while an external mouse is connected, turn this setting on. Audio Port... • “Basic Audio”.
If you have a sound board installed in a docking system, turn on Disable Internal to disable the OmniBook's internal sound chip. Beeper Volume and Audio Volume control the master volume levels for the beeper and the sound speaker. • “Advanced Audio”. For a given Audio address, you can specify an IRQ (interrupt value) and a DMA (direct memory access) channel. Enable IrDA IR Toggles IR port on and off. The Power Menu Power Controls... • “CPU Power Management”. Choose “Maximum” for greatest power savings. “None” prevents automatic power-down of the hard-disk drive. • “Auto Turn Off w/ Batteries” and “HDD power-down w/ Batteries”. Automatic turn-off times when batteries are supplying the power.
• “Auto Turn-Off w/ A/C”. Automatic turn-off time when using ac power. • “Port Activity”. Activity of any of the checked ports prevents automatic turn-off. 1-19