OK - It appears the underlying issue is that HAL is built without MacBook support for the reason that it uses hackish solutions (writing directly to /dev/mem in particular). Ubuntu builds HAL with MacBook support, and hence g-p-m functions fine on that distribution.
I merged this with the bug report against HAL for this (which was closed as "wontfix"). I figure we're stuck with th status quo without a kernel module to control MacBook brightness using HAL... It would be nice, though, if we could come up with a temporary workaround - as of now you are basically restricted to running without full g-p-m support on a MacBook, patching HAL manually for each update, or running Ubuntu :) On 7/26/07, Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007, Julien BLACHE wrote: > And for the record, the GNOME people did not want to integrate with > pommed other than by having me code up the whole thing into HAL, which > is NOT what I wanted to do. I'm still open to integration with the > GNOME things, and the DBus notifications & interface are there for a > reason. The GNOME people are free to pick up the DBus notifications on > the system bus; don't ask me why they didn't do it. It sounds reasonable to integrate such a support into HAL, but I can also understand you can't be bothered to implement it if you don't like it. Was this discussed in a gnome.org bug? It would be nice to link this bug to the upstream issue where the HAL changes are proposed. -- Loïc Minier
