[Mactel-linux-users] Fn Keys on MBP 4,1 and Ubuntu Intrepid

[hoarycripple <hoa...@gm...>]

I was happily using Ubuntu 8.04 with the mactel patches and latest
pommed for quite some time without any issues.  The keyboard backlight
was working as expected, as was the LCD backlight and volume keys.  In
short, all the Fn keys were working as expected.  My setup at that time
was using a patched 2.6.25 kernel using a fix as noted here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/207127/comments/26

I now had to install Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) because of a hard drive
failure and new hardware and have been struggling to get everything
working again.

With the default installation of Ubuntu 8.10, booting into GNOME,
everything works!  But, I personally don't use GNOME, and rather have
used svn Enlightenment DR17 windowmanager and Entrance as the login
manager.  I don't use GNOME at all, but keep everything installed
because there are so many packages that are dependent on it.  

Apparently, to get everything working I need to have gnome-power-manager
and gnome-settings-daemon loaded.  I also need to have the applesmc and
mbp_nvidia_bl modules loaded.  

Having the modules load at boot is not a big deal, but I would rather
not have to be tied to gnome-appearance-daemon or gnome-power-manager if
at all possible.  Therefore, I tried to install pommed (latest).  This
causes the automatic backlight to work properly, but the Fn keys don't
do anything at all.  xev gives me keysyms for all the function keys, but
pommed/gpomme does not recognize it.

Is there any way to have keyboard backlight, LCD backlight, volume and
eject keys working without having to load gnome-power-manager (controls
the backlights) or gnome-settings-daemon (controls the volume and
eject)?

Thank you.


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