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[cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>]

That thread refers to the MacBook Air not the Macbook Pro, not that it 
doesn't apply necessarily...

The kernel in the PPA is old, older than the MBA, so I am pretty sure 
the changes mentioned are not in there. It was created because there 
were so many issues with the kernel after the last Macbook version came 
out. That has all been fixed in Linux now so there is no need for the 
~mactel variant anymore. It is left in the PPA because it will be much 
easier for someone to figure out how to link the normal Ubuntu packages 
to it later if it is needed again.

J.R. Mauro wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:20 AM, cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     That is a very old kernel and probably should not be used. For you
>     keyboard backlight you want pommed.
>
>
> Pommed doesn't work, even in 1.21 (latest version). The backlight on the 
> 4th gen MBP requires patches in
> some kernel drivers see 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5200983&postcount=46 
> <http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5200983&postcount=46>. That was the
> point of the PPA kernel, right? I tried to apply the patches mentioned 
> in the original post manually, but the
> files do not look similar.
>  
>
>
>     J.R. Mauro wrote:
>
>         Subject says it all: trying to install linux-mactel from the PPA
>         fails. It seems to track down to the
>          linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-11-generic and
>         linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-11-mactel packages.
>
>         I hope you can resolve this... I need my keyboard backlight :-P
>
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