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Re: Call for Testing: Updated Apple backlight driver, round 2

 

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 09:37:40PM +1030, Alex Murray wrote:
> On Sat 11 Feb 2012 02:59:51 CST, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > [Note that I'm not subscribed to the mactel-support-community list;
> >  please Cc me on any replies or I won't see them]
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Thanks for everyone's help so far in testing the backlight driver
> > updates! Your feedback has been valuable, and I've been able to make
> > some improvements as a result.
> >
> > I've got new packages for testing in the PPA. There are two important
> > changes worth noting. The first is that I've improved the detection of
> > the gmux device so that it will better detect whether or not the machine
> > has a functional gmux, and if not the gmux_backlight device will not be
> > crated.
> >
> > The second change is that I've split the gmux out into a separate driver
> > from apple_bl. So if you tested previously, you should install the new
> > driver by running:
> >
> >   sudo apt-get update
> >   sudo apt-get install apple-gmux-dkms
> >
> > Answer yes when prompted to remove apple-bl-gmux-dkms. This information
> > is also noted in the wiki.
> >
> > If you tested previously, please test again to see if the results have
> > changed at all. I'm especially interested to see whether the acpi_video0
> > backlight ever works on a machine with gmux_backlight, because if it
> > doesn't I can disable apci_video0 whenever a functional gmux is present.
> >
> > And of course if you didn't test previously, your results would be
> > greatly apprecaiated!
> >
> >   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/AppleGmuxBacklight
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Seth
> >
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> Any chance of a build for oneiric of the new version?

Ah, yes. Sorry about that, I just forgot to copy the packages to
oneiric. They should be there now.

Seth


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