@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 Mactel Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support. Status in Gnome Powermanager: Invalid Status in The Linux Kernel: Incomplete Status in Mactel Support: New Status in X.Org X server: Confirmed Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: devicekit-power A lot of laptop have no backlight (brightness support) because of missing kernel support, and waiting for fix in hal... In fact, the utility smartdimmer, in main repository, is providing everything need : a get and set method for backlight... As hal will be depreciated, it would be nice, if it could be fixed in devicekit... and people having vaios, samsung and so could after a couple of years have full power management ! ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jun 10 23:54:32 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: libdevkit-power-gobject1 008-1 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-8.9-generic SourcePackage: devicekit-power Uname: Linux 2.6.30-8-generic x86_64 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
