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ahdar
May 28th, 2008, 02:50 PM
LCD backlight, keyboard illumination and ambion light sensor don't work under ubuntu 8.04.
Neither system power manager nor pommed could handle it. (pommed did work for sound though...)
_alex_
May 28th, 2008, 03:16 PM
You need to use the Fn key fix as detailed here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MacBookPro/Penryn

However, even then keyboard illumination will not currently wrok AFAIK.
ahdar
May 28th, 2008, 03:26 PM
The Fn key had been fixed. So pommed worked for sound control (F8/F10-12)... But F1/F2 still got no responses :(
_alex_
May 28th, 2008, 04:08 PM
Are you running pommed 1.16+? To check, execute "pommed -v" at the shell. If not, you need to add the mactel support ppa to your source list, see:
https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support/+archive
ahdar
May 28th, 2008, 05:53 PM
fixed it! Thanks a lot!!
turns out 1.16 hasn't got to the repository
hope a solution to keyboard/sensor comes up soon~