You should not use pommed on these newer macs. It is depreciated. Instead the driver should be patched.
Ricky On Jun 21, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Jim Rorie <[email protected]> wrote: > Someone updated the community docs to state that pommed now works. I > installed it and does work, but there are some differences. #1) The > option to swap the default Fn behavior becomes disabled and the > suggested configuration for pommed doesn't appear to work. #2) pommed > appears to have the keyboard active at the gdm login, which is pretty > nice. #3 The keyboard doesn't stay on. It has some type of timeout > like I would expect under battery power save. Except that I'm on A/C. > Which brings a question. I saw a reference to a "Keyboard" tab under > gnome power manager. Do other see this or is that for another models > keyboard? > > -- > [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 keyboard backlight not supported > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337945 > You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel > Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support. > > Status in Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): New > Status in Mactel Support: In Progress > Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > The keyboard backlight on the MacBook 5.1 is not supported as of > Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) Alpha 5. This is supported in Intrepid (Ubuntu > 8.10) by the Mactel PPA packages hal-applesmc, hid-dkms, and > possibly nvidia-bl-dkms, though I installed the nvidia-bl-dkms > package for Jaunty. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- [Jaunty] MacBook 5.1 keyboard backlight not supported https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/337945 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support. Status in Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL): New Status in Mactel Support: In Progress Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The keyboard backlight on the MacBook 5.1 is not supported as of Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04) Alpha 5. This is supported in Intrepid (Ubuntu 8.10) by the Mactel PPA packages hal-applesmc, hid-dkms, and possibly nvidia-bl-dkms, though I installed the nvidia-bl-dkms package for Jaunty. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
