[Pommed-devel] backlight support for macbook rev 3

[Julien BLACHE]

Steffen Schulz <pepe at cbg.dyndns.org> wrote:

Hi,

> Someone over at ubuntu found the following code to work for the current
> santa-rosa macbook pro:
>
> http://felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2006/09/11/basic-backlight-support-for-macbook-pro/
>
> I know, it's from 2006. But it works.

Very interesting. Do you know if reading back the current backlight
level works ? If not it's not usable for pommed, unfortunately.

> BTW, for some reason pommed never adjusted the keyboard light
> automatically for me. Thresholds should be okay.
>
> Should pommed -d say something when the light changes?
> I get no messages regardless of what the sensors say.

You should see:

Ambient light: right 62, left 29

5 times per second when running pommed -d. If not, send me the
complete log.

Thanks,

JB.

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