I just upgraded my June 2009 MacBook Pro from Karmic to Lucid.
The keyboard backlight control now finally works (as it used to for a while when I first installed... Jaunty I guess—maybe it's the choice of drivers). But I can't turn it off. What I can do is dim the keyboard's internal lighting until it's almost completely gone. If I press the dim button once more after that, it goes back to full-on again.
I would guess that the driver may be confusing "manually disabled" with "automatically disabled because the keyboard isn't being used."
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC1: jtv 1870 F.... pulseaudio
/dev/snd/pcmC1D0p: jtv 1870 F...m pulseaudio
/dev/snd/controlC0: jtv 1870 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xd3580000 irq 21'
Mixer name : 'Cirrus Logic CS4206'
Components : 'HDA:10134206,106b4c00,00100301'
Controls : 16
Simple ctrls : 9
Card1.Amixer.info:
Card hw:1 'default'/'C-Media USB Headphone Set at usb-0000:00:04.0-1, full speed'
Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
Components : 'USB0d8c:000c'
Controls : 7
Simple ctrls : 3
CheckboxSubmission: e56271c144a9c8f9f675c77e2e4edb56
CheckboxSystem: 7e42599bda39ea7ff8b528272b6ef52b
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=561a5e5a-24d1-4c9e-8bfb-ff985eecf2f2
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro5,4
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: linux 2.6.35.22.23
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=e82d9a35-caee-4503-8594-8cd1eb26eec9 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Regression: No
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38
Reproducible: Yes
RfKill:
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Tags: maverick kernel-uncat needs-upstream-testing
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin netdev plugdev pulse pulse-access sambashare video
WpaSupplicantLog:
dmi.bios.date: 06/15/09
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP53.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151647
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-F22587A1
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: MacBookPro5,4
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F22587A1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP53.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151647:bd06/15/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro5,4:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F22587A1:rvrMacBookPro5,4:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F22587A1:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro5,4
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
---
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: NVidia [HDA NVidia], device 0: Cirrus Analog [Cirrus Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: jtv 1661 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xd3580000 irq 21'
Mixer name : 'Cirrus Logic CS4206'
Components : 'HDA:10134206,106b4c00,00100301'
Controls : 16
Simple ctrls : 9
CheckboxSubmission: e56271c144a9c8f9f675c77e2e4edb56
CheckboxSystem: 7e42599bda39ea7ff8b528272b6ef52b
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Frequency: I don't know.
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=561a5e5a-24d1-4c9e-8bfb-ff985eecf2f2
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro5,4
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: linux 2.6.35.23.25
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=e82d9a35-caee-4503-8594-8cd1eb26eec9 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=en_DK.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Regression: No
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38
Reproducible: No
RfKill:
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Tags: maverick needs-upstream-testing
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout lpadmin netdev plugdev pulse pulse-access sambashare video
WpaSupplicantLog:
dmi.bios.date: 06/15/09
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP53.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151647
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-F22587A1
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: MacBookPro5,4
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F22587A1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP53.88Z.00AC.B03.0906151647:bd06/15/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro5,4:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F22587A1:rvrMacBookPro5,4:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F22587A1:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro5,4
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
Hello
Is this problem present with the latest updated Lucid's or Maverick's packages?
Thanks in advance
Fabio