Bug 331161

Summary: HAL-quirks and macbook pro (intel)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jussi Eloranta <eloranta>
Component: halAssignee: David Zeuthen <davidz>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 8CC: mclasen, s.adam
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Description Jussi Eloranta 2007-10-14 04:14:16 UTC
Description of problem: Multimedia keys MacBook Pro (intel) mostly work.
The keyboard backlight adjustment keys for turning it off and increasing the
brightness work but the key that is supposed to decrease the brightness seems
not to work (pressing it does nothing). Also it would be great to have automatic
backlight adjustment based on the ambient light sensors. This is supposed to be
available for LCD screen brightness (automatic) adjustment but it does not seem
to work. It always adjusts the screen to maximum intensity (sensor reading
problem?) They "manual" keys for adjusting the LCD brightness work OK though.

Relevant rpms installed:

hal-0.5.10-1.fc8
kernel-headers-2.6.23-6.fc8
kernel-devel-2.6.23-6.fc8
kernel-2.6.23-6.fc8

Comment 1 Chris Nolan 2008-03-07 12:52:30 UTC
You need to install "pommed" to make backlight adjustment and screen brightness
adjustment work (among other macbook/macbook pro features). pommed is available
here: http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31066

Comment 2 Stewart Adam 2008-11-05 13:12:17 UTC
This is because the kernel doesn't autoload the backlight driver - see bug 462409. You may need to install kernel >= 2.6.27 though.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 07:58:34 UTC
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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 04:57:09 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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