[Pommed-devel] Support for Macbook 5,2

[Julien BLACHE]

Alejandro Valenzuela <lanjoe9 at mexinetica.com> wrote:

Hi,

> Hi! Thanks a lot! The patch works. The cause for pommed not having any

OK, great.

> visible effect is definitely the Nvidia drivers (I tried the latest
> betas since those are the only ones which can be used with the
> 2.6.29.2 kernel); if I change into one of the text terminals and push
> the brightness keys, the screen is adjusted properly (which means I

Can you verify that pommed does get the key presses when you're under
X? Run pommed -d from an xterm and look for key presses. Though if
everything else works, you already know :)

> However, pommed seems to have some odd interaction with the applesmc
> device - when I start pommed, it uses ~ 20% of the CPU without any
> apparent cause and I get the following message written LOTS of times
> in log:
>
> applesmc: wait status failed: 5 != 10
>
> What could be the cause of this?

applesmc busy-looping trying to get the reply from the SMC, and the
SMC not replying because it's busy controlling the fans and
temperatures.

Unfortunately the applesmc driver isn't great and doesn't really
behave, and it seems it's particularly bad on your machine.

JB.

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