Bug#434711: Sync with Ubuntu changes - adds brightness control, etc...

[Tim Hull]

I think this just simply a dupe of 399039, and I figure Ubuntu is building
HAL with MacBook support.  From the looks of that kernel driver, it appears
us MacBook users are stuck with pommed until somebody writes a kernel driver
to interface with HAL..

On 7/26/07, Tim Hull <thully at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm actually on a MacBook (non-Pro) but I figure HAL works the same in
> both cases...
>
> On 7/26/07, Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se > wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 18:14 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> > > HAL/g-p-m should support the MacBook {,Pro} out of the box, and
> > > without pommed as far as the LCD backlight and sound support goes,
> > > though AFAIK it doesn't use ACPI.
> >
> > It looks like HAL in Debian is built without support for the macbook
> > pro, see http://bugs.debian.org/399039
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Sven Arvidsson
> > http://www.whiz.se
> > PGP Key ID 760BDD22
> >
> >
>
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