Comment 27 for bug 337945

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Ricky Campbell (cyberdork33) wrote : Re: [Mactel-support] [Bug 337945] Re: [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 keyboard backlight not supported

You should not use pommed on these newer macs. It is depreciated.
Instead the driver should be patched.

Ricky

On Jun 21, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Jim Rorie <email address hidden> wrote:

> Someone updated the community docs to state that pommed now works. I
> installed it and does work, but there are some differences. #1) The
> option to swap the default Fn behavior becomes disabled and the
> suggested configuration for pommed doesn't appear to work. #2) pommed
> appears to have the keyboard active at the gdm login, which is pretty
> nice. #3 The keyboard doesn't stay on. It has some type of timeout
> like I would expect under battery power save. Except that I'm on A/C.
> Which brings a question. I saw a reference to a "Keyboard" tab under
> gnome power manager. Do other see this or is that for another models
> keyboard?
>
> --
> [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 keyboard backlight not supported
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337945
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> Status in Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): New
> Status in Mactel Support: In Progress
> Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> The keyboard backlight on the MacBook 5.1 is not supported as of
> Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) Alpha 5. This is supported in Intrepid (Ubuntu
> 8.10) by the Mactel PPA packages hal-applesmc, hid-dkms, and
> possibly nvidia-bl-dkms, though I installed the nvidia-bl-dkms
> package for Jaunty.
>
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