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[Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ricky Campbell wrote:
> It would be helpful if you would state the you have done testing and the
> results of those tests when you file a bug report. The more information
> the better.
> 
> Can you see if hal-applesmc shows? I believe that is one of the packages
> that is not in the standard repos already. It would also be good if you
> tried other tools besides synaptic (apt-get or aptitude).
> 
> For everyone else's information... It appears that the dkms packages are
> only marked as being for i386. I believe these are all uploads by
> rydberg. Can you check if they can somehow be marked as being for i386
> and amd64?
> 

There are two types of packages: those marked "any" and those marked "all".
The "any" packages are compiled on every defined architecure, which in
this case means i386, amd64 and lpia. Examples of "any" packages are
hal-applesmc and gnome-power-manager. The "all" packages are valid for
all architectures, and are therefore "compiled" on just one architecture,
which in this case happens to be i386. Examples of "all" packages are
applesmc-dkms and bcm5974-dkms.

One can look for all available packages on this page:

http://ppa.launchpad.net/mactel-support/ubuntu/

Henrik