Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

Keyboard backlight does not work on Macbook Pro / Powerbook

Bug #71808 reported by Timothy Smith
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gnome-power
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Bug Description

The keyboard backlight, and the backlight control keys do not function on the Macbook Pro under Edgy Final. There is an upstream patch to this as a part of Gnome Power Manager in Gnome 2.17.1

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status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Timothy Smith (tas50) wrote :

Problem also effects the Powerbook 5,6 15/17inch 1.5-1.67Ghz models that have the illuminated keyboard

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Timothy Smith (tas50) wrote :

I'm unmarking this bug a duplicate of 70020. Apple has it's own unique keyboard backlight system making this bug unique as well.

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Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33) wrote :

Isn't it HAL related too ? Apparently, they are close linked in this problem.

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Richard Hughes (richard-hughes) wrote :

Should be fixed in SVN:

2007-02-06 Richard Hughes <email address hidden>

 * src/gpm-brightness-kbd.c: (gpm_brightness_kbd_set_hw):
 Apply patch from David Zeuthen <email address hidden>:
 g-p-m times out on lots of method calls on startup.
 Attached patch makes it work for me on my Macbook Pro.

Matthew Garrett (mjg59)
Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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oss_test_launchpad (oss-test-launchpad) wrote :

For some reason I do not know, today for the first time the keyboard illumination worked when booting. However, it instantly went out after logging in.

Testing on Ubuntu 8.10 64-Bit as of today, MacBook Pro rev. 3.

Btw. what's the difference between this bug report and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pommed/+bug/128786?

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Henrik Rydberg (rydberg) wrote :

The other bug is listed towards pommed. This one is listed towards gnome-power-manager, but for older macbooks. The bug relevant to Intrepid (i.e., which has a fix from MactelSupport) is this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/125918

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