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

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

* hoarycripple <hoa...@gm...> [2008-12-11 15:00:08 -0500]:

> 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.

Replying to my own messge.

I posted this on the Ubuntu forums and received a very speedy reply:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6350859&postcount=2

This solved the problem.

Thanks go to _mario_



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That's a great computer you have there; have you considered how it would work as a BSD machine?