mbpeventd v0.3 - MacBook Pro hotkeys event handler daemon
mbpeventd is an event handler daemon for the hotkeys found on the MacBook Pro. It also handles the keyboard backlight, turning it on automatically when the ambient light is low. Volume adjustment is currently not supported, but will be supported in a future version.
Only the Core2 Duo MacBook Pro (MacBookPro2,2) is supported at the moment. If you own a Core Duo MacBookPro, please send me the output of the getSystemId or sysid command from the libsmbios-bin package so I can add support for this machine too (and you’ll volunteer to test the new version, of course ;-)).
Sources and AMD64 package available on http://people.debian.org/~jblache/pkg/mbpeventd/
As usual, no warranty, your laptop may crash, burn or explode while using this software and it may rape your goldfish or whatever pet your happen to own. Works for me ™.
Patches for MacBook support (LCD backlight for the Intel GPU) are welcome. Patches for ALSA sound support are welcome too.
mbpeventd includes the Radeon Mobility X1600 backlight routines written by Nicolas BOICHAT. Thanks !