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[Mario Schwalbe <schwalbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@John Haitas: Maybe I should clarify a few things.

(1) The original bug report mentions smartdimmer, Nvidia, and Geforce.
Thus, the bug seems to be related to Nvidia graphics. The driver
nvidia_bl in the mactel repository, which isn't specific to Apple
machines, it is just there, might help. As well as the mentioned X.org
option (EnableBrightnessControl) which is to be used with the Nvidia
proprietary graphics driver.

(2) Your machine (MacBook4,1) incorporates an Intel graphics adapter. So
the suggestions obviously won't help. (And pommed isn't necessary, but
useful anyway.) For your machine, you might try mbp_nvidia_bl instead.
This one is Apple-specific, but despite its name not restricted to
MacBook Pros. Afaik, the upstream version (and thus, karmic and lucid)
doesn't support your machine yet, but my patches have been accepted
recently, so it might work when lucid gets released. In the meantime you
might try the patched version in present the mactel PPA.

(3) Finally, what's this report about? Nvidia? Intel? ATI? Device Kit?

ciao,
Mario

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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