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MacBook 5,1 - cant change brightness on 12.04

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http://askubuntu.com – Im a total newbie to Ubuntu and recently decided to give it a go on my early 2009 alu macbook. For about a week now I've been trying to get the brightness controls to work. I've tried the following: Brightness controls doesn't work on a MacBook Pro 5.5 (ubuntu 12.04 LTS) https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro5-5/Precise#LCD None of it seems to work :( Next option was to try the Nvidia-bl-dkms drivers, but aftert installing the mactel ppa I just get this: Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate packa (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 09/08/2012

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Hardware: 13" MacBook Pro 5,5 (Summer 2009), GeForce 9400M.

OS: Ubuntu 12.04.2 AMD64

My hardware and OS are similar to what some others with this problem had, but what worked for them doesn't work for me.

Unfortunately, with the nvidia driver, the brightness controls (F1 and F2) do not work - no feedback at all.

I'm unable to get my macbookpro VMware fusion 3, wifi working in Ubuntu 9.1 karmic..

I've been to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro5-3/Karmic

and went thru the steps.. to no avail that my wifi is working.. assistance pls?

Whenever I run

sudo apt-get install AnySoftwareOrPackageName

It shows

Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information...

I bought a MacBook Pro 9,1 (NOT retina). Can anyone tell me how to install Ubuntu 12.04 on it? I already have Windows installed via BootCamp. Also, where to install drivers for Ubuntu and all? This link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookPro has nothing for 9,1 so please help me.

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I can not decrease or increase brightness and my Fn key does not work.

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page 1: Brightness control doesn't seem to work on a Toshiba Satellite M115 laptop

page 2: Ubuntu 12.04 - Brightness controls not working [duplicate]

I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 the other day on my Dell M90 and the screen brightness lowered all the way and the brightness FN keys no longer work. I even went to the brightness controls in Ubuntu and I can't get the brightness to go up.

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