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[Albert Cardona <acardona@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As of ubuntu 9.10 beta 5, the default driver for the mactel keys doesn't
work. But pommez, at least the latest git commit as of today, works
almost well -- only F1/F2 for LCD backlight don't work. So whoever is
taking care of an update for 9.10, please do so ...

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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” 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.