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[gregwarner]

Hey, all,

Here at work, we're using the Asus Eee Touch (Model: Eee PC T101MT), which came with Windows 7 Starter 32-bit. Needless to say, we upgraded them to Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, but now, the little "Express Gate" hotkey under the monitor doesn't work any more. In the default OS, it rotated the display.

I've tried searching many forums to find a driver or utility to restore functionality to this button, but I haven't been able to find anything official. (I'm leery of hacks or outdated programs found on forums, because they're so strict about computer security here, I can't risk using anything that's not official.)

That being said, I was wondering if anybody here knew how to discover what hardware interrupt it was using so I could write my own driver for it. Are there any utilities that will allow me to, in software, capture interrupt requests of the hardware so I can essentially "probe" it to figure out how it works?

Either that, or if somebody just happens to know where Asus's official driver is. :)

[Alexander]

The actual "Instant-On" software is named Splashtop (DeviceVM) and is branded as ExpressGate for certain Asus models, so you may have better luck researching that to find access to its hardware. Upon looking on the Asus driver site for your model it appears to have your ExpressGate installer (under Other in your model), I cannot link as they did their site in Javascript, but I believe that would add in-Windows functionality of the key again for ExpressGate (if that is what the purpose of that key is), I have it too but I am unaware of how it exactly works.

[gregwarner]

I thought that the ExpressGate installer was for their proprietary operating system, (hence the file size of 306 MB, too big for a driver), which is accessed through the hardware button in question, but only when the computer is off. In Windows, the button has a different function, for rotating the screen. (I was hoping the driver would let me remap this to some other function of my choosing.)

I'll look into the Splashtop DeviceVM name and see what I come up with. Thanks.