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["J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:56 AM, cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.


Ok. So those patches I mentioned are not incorporated, then. Do you know if
they are being maintained? (IIRC the person who posted them was a member of
the PPA maintainer group)


>
>
> 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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