On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:56 AM, cyberdork33 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That thread refers to the MacBook Air not the Macbook Pro, not that it > doesn't apply necessarily... > > The kernel in the PPA is old, older than the MBA, so I am pretty sure the > changes mentioned are not in there. It was created because there were so > many issues with the kernel after the last Macbook version came out. That > has all been fixed in Linux now so there is no need for the ~mactel variant > anymore. It is left in the PPA because it will be much easier for someone to > figure out how to link the normal Ubuntu packages to it later if it is > needed again. Ok. So those patches I mentioned are not incorporated, then. Do you know if they are being maintained? (IIRC the person who posted them was a member of the PPA maintainer group) > > > J.R. Mauro wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:20 AM, cyberdork33 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> That is a very old kernel and probably should not be used. For you >> keyboard backlight you want pommed. >> >> >> Pommed doesn't work, even in 1.21 (latest version). The backlight on the >> 4th gen MBP requires patches in >> some kernel drivers see >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5200983&postcount=46 < >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5200983&postcount=46>. That was >> the >> point of the PPA kernel, right? I tried to apply the patches mentioned in >> the original post manually, but the >> files do not look similar. >> >> >> J.R. Mauro wrote: >> >> Subject says it all: trying to install linux-mactel from the PPA >> fails. It seems to track down to the >> linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-11-generic and >> linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-11-mactel packages. >> >> I hope you can resolve this... I need my keyboard backlight :-P >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: >> https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support<https://launchpad.net/%7Emactel-support> >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Emactel-support> >> Post to : [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> Unsubscribe : >> https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support<https://launchpad.net/%7Emactel-support> >> <https://launchpad.net/%7Emactel-support> >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> >> >>
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