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

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:39 AM, cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No, I, and most of the others here, are just normal users. Either way, if
> you would like to continue troubleshooting your pommed issue, I would
>  search / post in ubuntuforums as not many people can see this mailing list.
>

Ok. Ubuntu forums haven't been much help. I'll contact pommed's developer,
as he'll probably be close to solving this.

Thanks.


>
> J.R. Mauro wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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