[Pommed-devel] [macbook air on debian]

[Julien BLACHE]

Sergiusz Pawlowicz <sergiusz.pawlowicz at bbc.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

> i have problems with setting up keyboard light on
> macbook air. it is standard debian sid kernel 2.6.24 
> rebuilt with mactel patches. smc reports:

> pommed works, but only with screen brightness,
> it cannot activate sound card:
>
> I: SMBIOS machine check: running on a MacBookAir1,1
> W: Could not open /sys/class/leds/smc:kbd_backlight/brightness: Nie ma
> takiego pliku ani katalogu

What do you have under /sys/class/leds ? If you don't have an
smc:kbd_backlight directory, there's something missing in your kernel
(leds class support, perhaps).

> I: Found applesmc at /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/light
> ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL HDA Intel
> W: Audio initialization failed, audio support disabled
>
> even if i set it up not as "default", but "HDA Intel".