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[Jim Rorie <jfrorie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Someone updated the community docs to state that pommed now works.  I
installed it and does work, but there are some differences.  #1) The
option to swap the default Fn behavior becomes disabled and the
suggested configuration for pommed doesn't appear to work.  #2) pommed
appears to have the keyboard active at the gdm login, which is pretty
nice.  #3 The keyboard doesn't stay on.  It has some type of timeout
like I would expect under battery power save.  Except that I'm on A/C.
Which brings a question.  I saw a reference to a "Keyboard" tab under
gnome power manager.  Do other see this or is that for another models
keyboard?

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[Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 keyboard backlight not supported
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337945
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Status in Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): New
Status in Mactel Support: In Progress
Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
The keyboard backlight on the MacBook 5.1 is not supported as of Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) Alpha 5. This is supported in Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10) by the Mactel PPA packages hal-applesmc, hid-dkms, and possibly nvidia-bl-dkms, though I installed the nvidia-bl-dkms package for Jaunty.