[Pommed-devel] [macbook air on debian]

[Sergiusz Pawlowicz]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:17:38PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> 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).

No, unfortunately there is no content in leds dir.
I have leds module loaded:

applesmc               33740  0 
led_class              10120  1 applesmc
input_polldev           9872  1 applesmc

but applesmc do not find it, accordingly to dmesg:

applesmc:  - Model without light sensors and backlight

how can i get more output from applesmc?

> 
> > 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".
> 
> From the error message, it's probably the mixer element names that
> aren't correct for your machine. 

bingo! thanks. it works for speakers , but i cannot see 
headphones output in alsamixer. 

> > how can i get things more verbose to find out problems?
> 
> pommed -d will show you some more messages. If you only want the
> startup messages, be ready to hit Ctrl + C because it'll start
> scrolling fast once pommed is running :)

it looks pommed is doing its job, and problem is inside
applesmc module.


thanks, julien!

s.
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