MacBook 5,1 - cant change brightness on 12.04

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Published on 2012-09-08T04:24:51Z Indexed on 2012/09/17 3:53 UTC
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I'm 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 package nvidia-bl-dkms

Any help would be much appreciated as my eyes are going to fall out soon with the brightness maxed out.

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