[Bug 226894] Re: Backlight control does not work on MacBook Pro 5.1

[Colin D Bennett]

Ok, the LCD backlight control does work with the Lucid alpha 3 live CD.
It works great -- the brightness range of the indicator bar on screen
matches the apparent range of backlight brightness (before, when it was
working on Karmic, the ranges were out of sync).

A little off topic, but this was my first test with Lucid, and I did
have some other issues on the Lucid live CD, though.  I tried to install
the nvidia-current driver so I could see if it was working, but I
couldn't get it to load.  I did install the dkms package but I couldn't
load the kernel module since the noveau module was installed.  I tried
to log out to a text login screen by logging out to the GDM screen and
switching to a text VT to restart GDM, but I could not switch to another
VT.  From the GDM screen, pressing Fn-Control-Alt-F1 caused only my
mouse cursor to disappear, but it did not switch from the graphical
screen.  I pressed Fn-Control-Alt-F7 and my cursor reappeared.  I logged
back in as ubuntu and *wow* my desktop reappeared instantly.  gnome-
screensaver crashed when I pressed a key to return to the desktop from
the blank screen after inactivity.

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Backlight control does not work on MacBook Pro 5.1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/226894
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