ubuntu-x-swat team mailing list archive

[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

-- 
no backlight support for laptop (hal depreciation regression)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385723
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X,
which is subscribed to xorg-server in ubuntu.