On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:39 AM, cyberdork33 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, I, and most of the others here, are just normal users. Either way, if > you would like to continue troubleshooting your pommed issue, I would > search / post in ubuntuforums as not many people can see this mailing list. > Ok. Ubuntu forums haven't been much help. I'll contact pommed's developer, as he'll probably be close to solving this. Thanks. > > J.R. Mauro wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:16 AM, cyberdork33 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: >> >> He does have access to the PPA, yes, but has decided not create >> anything for the PPA, but rather submitted the needed patches into >> the vanilla and Ubuntu kernels. >> >> I don't think these are required to get the keyboard backlight >> working on a MBP though. Do you have applesmc loaded? >> >> Yes (although maybe I'm missing something?): >> >> lsmod | grep apple >> >> applesmc 27716 0 >> led_class 7176 1 applesmc >> input_polldev 6928 1 applesmc >> >> There is also a topic linked in the Intel Apple FAQ in the >> ubuntuforums. Though at first glance it appears this was an older >> version of pommed. >> >> >> They use an old version, yes. People who had problems with the fn key were >> directed to the PPA to get a newer pommed. I tried using the latest and >> still the backlight doesn't work. The patches that were submitted haven't >> been looked at on kernel.org <http://kernel.org>. I don't know about >> Ubuntu. Do you have anyone you can contact about getting them accepted? >> >> >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=493393 >> >> J.R. Mauro wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:56 AM, cyberdork33 >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[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]> >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <mailto:[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> >> < >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5200983&postcount=46 >> <http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5200983&postcount=46>> >> < >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5200983&postcount=46 >> <http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5200983&postcount=46> >> < >> 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... 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