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