Display brightness can't be changed

[cyberco]

I am running Karmic (9.10) on my macbook air (2,1) and although many things work fine (I wrote about it here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir2-1/Karmic) one of the last things that doesn't work is setting the screen brightness. The FN-F11/F12 combo does bring up the brightness adjustment notification window (top right) and I can change the setting, but it has no effect UNTILL I reboot or suspend to RAM and reboot.

A related issue is that the brightness doesn't automatically adjust to the surrounding brightness.

Thanks!
Berco

[linuxopjemac]

maybe you can ask the pommed guys for a feature request (MacBook Air 2,1).
http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pommed/

It seems that there is a new version 1.32 out. It might work for MacBook Air 2,1...

[cyberco]

Pommed 1.32 seems like it might solve the problem. Do you know if there is some 'software source' (repos) where I can get it from for Karmic? Make, build and copying files by hand is always possible but I'd rather take the short route.

Groet!

[linuxopjemac]

Dear cyberco, you have pommed in your repository. I don't know at which version it is currently, but to install you simply:

sudo apt-get install pommed

Restart and you will have pommed running.

Edit: Apparently very old ( v 1.26)
http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/pommed

[linuxopjemac]

You can add the Mactel PPA repository and install a more recent pommed (v 1.30)

https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support/+archive/ppa

[cyberco]

Great, pommed 1.30 indeed solved the problem. Thanks!

[linuxopjemac]

fantastic !!