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alsa-driver package

  1. Bug #568611
  2. Comment #217

Comment 217 for bug 568611

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Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa) wrote :

Good news to report from upstream... the last of Matthew Garrett's backlight brightness patches has seen some renewed activity on the intel-gfx mailing list[1]. I expect the latest version of the patch[2] (targeted for linux kernel version 3.1) to be merged into the mainline trees soon.

I have applied this latest version of the backlight patch to my PPA kernels for Oneiric and Natty (Maverick still uses the older backlight patches). The PPA kernels have also all been updated to the latest Ubuntu kernel baseline versions. The PPA builds are in progress and should become available in the next several hours:

    https://launchpad.net/~kamalmostafa/+archive/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight

My git source trees for these kernels have also all been updated (see the links to them on the PPA page).

[1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.intel/5368
[2] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.intel/5434