Apple Macbook (pro)

Sébastien Estienne sebastien.estienne at gmail.com
Mon Oct 2 23:18:34 BST 2006


Richard Hughes a écrit :
> On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 13:40 +0200, Sébastien Estienne wrote:
>> As fix exist for most of the issue, and this laptop is quite 
>> standardized, and is selling really well, i think it would be great if 
>> Edgy could support them to some extent.
> 
> 2.16.1 supports the laptop panel brightness up and down keys which
> should work in edgy.
> 
> Just to whet your appetite: gnome-power-manager 2.17.1 supports the
> keyboard backlight dimming, with ambient light sensors. This is
> obviously not for edgy tho :-)
> 

Great news! i'm sure that these laptop could be fully supported, 
unfortunately installation fails at the bootloader stage. This is a 
severe show stopper to have people using ubuntu on these laptops.

The good news are that fixes/solutions exists, so will they be 
implemented in edgy?

> Richard.
> 
> 
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