Comment 27 for bug 337945

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 address hidden> 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
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> 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.
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