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[Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

>> Has anybody else tried Karmic with one of the -intel chips?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir1-1/Karmic

>> Also, I found a bug report where rydberg requested adding mbp_backlight
>> to the -intel driver[2]. As far as I can tell, mbp_backlight only
>> provides functionality for nvidia graphics, right? Or does it provide
>> general apple backlight support as well?

It provides LCD backlight for most macbooks nowadays.

>> I haven't yet looked at applesmc to see if (screen) backlight support
>> exists there.

No LCD backlight support in applesmc.

Cheers,
Henrik