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[Ricky Campbell <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pommed is a "workaround". The bug still exists whether pommed gets the  
keys working or not.

Ricky

On Nov 29, 2009, at 5:37 AM, Νίκος Αλεξανδρής <nikos.alexandris@uranus. 
uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I read that phrase "pommed has been deprecated" since last year (I
> think).
>
> The fact is that "pommed":
> * does its job and it does so very fast (brightness keys work faster  
> than in OS-X I would say)
> * is packaged for Karmic and available through the Mactel PPA
> * so far does not give any side-effects
>
> If it is really meant to be abandoned or not used then why is it  
> available?
> Thanks, Nikos
>
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> Brightness hotkeys not working on MacBook 5,2 and 4,1
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434071
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> Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support.
>
> Status in Mactel Support: New
> Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: hal
>
> On a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10, the brightness hotkeys are not  
> working at all on a MacBook5,2.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Mon Sep 21 16:17:06 2009
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
> Package: hal 0.5.13-1ubuntu4
> ProcEnviron:
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
> SourcePackage: hal
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64
>
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Brightness hotkeys not working on MacBook 5,2 and 4,1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434071
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel
Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support.

Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Binary package hint: hal

On a clean install of Ubuntu 9.10, the brightness hotkeys are not working at all on a MacBook5,2.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Sep 21 16:17:06 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
Package: hal 0.5.13-1ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
SourcePackage: hal
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64