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

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:16 AM, cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> He does have access to the PPA, yes, but has decided not create anything
> for the PPA, but rather submitted the needed patches into the vanilla and
> Ubuntu kernels.
>
> I don't think these are required to get the keyboard backlight working on a
> MBP though. Do you have applesmc loaded?


Yes (although maybe I'm missing something?):

lsmod | grep apple

applesmc               27716  0
led_class               7176  1 applesmc
input_polldev           6928  1 applesmc


> There is also a topic linked in the Intel Apple FAQ in the ubuntuforums.
> Though at first glance it appears this was an older version of pommed.
>

They use an old version, yes. People who had problems with the fn key were
directed to the PPA to get a newer pommed. I tried using the latest and
still the backlight doesn't work. The patches that were submitted haven't
been looked at on kernel.org. I don't know about Ubuntu. Do you have anyone
you can contact about getting them accepted?


>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=493393
>
> J.R. Mauro wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:56 AM, cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:
>> 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>
>>        <mailto: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>
>>        <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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