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[Mario Schwalbe <schwalbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@Robert Hooker: Unfortunately the option doesn't work on my machine
(MacBook Pro 4,1).

However, there's a kernel driver available since early 2009 in the
Mactel repository (https://launchpad.net/~mactel-
support/+archive/ppa/+packages), that isn't specific to Apple machines
and is known to work on my machines (might not auto-load). Also works on
Lucid and can be used with pommed as well.

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no backlight support for laptop (hal depreciation regression)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385723
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Status in Gnome Powermanager: Invalid
Status in The Linux Kernel: Incomplete
Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in X.Org X server: Confirmed
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: devicekit-power

A lot of laptop have no backlight (brightness support) because of missing kernel support, and waiting for fix in hal...
In fact, the utility smartdimmer, in main repository, is providing everything need : a get and set method for backlight...

As hal will be depreciated, it would be nice, if it could be fixed in devicekit... and people having vaios, samsung and so could after a couple of years have full power management !

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 10 23:54:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libdevkit-power-gobject1 008-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-8.9-generic
SourcePackage: devicekit-power
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-8-generic x86_64