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so enabling laptop tools it seems like choosing suspend form gnome panel results in screensaver. same for hibernate. any idea why that could be?

Furthermore, is laptop-mode a requirement for...

actually, I just realized that the problem is laptop-mode related. I'll be happy to report back once I got it to work.

thanks for the hint, i do have the correct one installed though.

you were right about 99-savings. trying to fix that issue now at

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1215928

in my keyboard shortcut preferences i found had found mapping for "log out ->...

here: 9.10 Macbook Pro 5,5 EFI 1.7

your script works except some issues:

i can only suspend manually from command line, not from gnome panel.
I guess this is because things are a bit...

That's right, I upgraded from 9.04.

The keyboard is set to "USA Macintosh" with keyboard model "Apple".

When I try to change the keyboard model to i.e. Macbook/Macbook Pro (Intl) I get the...

Hi,

I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 on a Macbook Pro 5,5 works great except:

- from the indicator applet in the gnome panel choosing suspend/hibernate will result in activation of screensaver instead...

Hey, this worked, great, thanks.

About battery life: i applied some of the scripts and activated laptop-mode-tools so now i get 3hrs max.

Another problem: I cant dim the screen brightness...

Thanks for the input, got inspired to upgrade to Karmic. After executing #98 sound works. Also restart works now. Can't tell yet if the other features work well though. Nice to finally have sound...

I did exactly as described in #98, only using 2.6.28-15-generic instead.
When i reboot the second time nothing seems to have changed, audio is not mute as well.

And you got it working on the...

#98 are instructions for 2.6.28-13 but I'm running 2.6.28-15. when executing the script i never get to see a front speaker panel... in my volume applet preferences the device selected is HDA...

anyone who got it working with the current kernel?

I tried #98 with 2.6.28-15-generic on 64-bit. No luck :-(

yes, looks like a bug, to bad it took me almost two days to figure out a workaround... from Debian I was used to control keyboard settings in xorg.conf but now I had to mess with xkb...

Check my...

Ok I found a way to solve the problem:

Keyboard settings:
Model: Macbook/Macbook Pro
Layout: de

Then execute and put the following code into ~/.initrc


setxkbmap -option...

Trying to get German keyboard working on macbook (1.1) with xubuntu jj, tried all kinds of model/layout combinations, also manually edited xorg.conf but no success, AltGr (right apple key) just not...

still no success. :-( :-( :-(

here are some new findings:

in order to get F11/F12 to work from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook4-1/Jaunty#Keyboard :

from...

Hi folks,

just installed xubuntu jauntry and I'm having problems finding the correct settings for the german macbook keyboard to work correctly (ctrl key combinations, at symbol, f11 etc.). I've...