You need to have the kernel headers (e.g. linux-header-generic) installed for the kernel you're compiling for. You also need the build tools (build-essential or similar).
Note: You no longer need to specify mba6x_bl as your backlight device in /etc/X11/xorg.conf. This is now handled automatically by promoting the driver above the ACPI backlight interface.
At this point you can load the module
sudo modprobe mba6x_bl
Then restart X (usually log in / log out will do the trick). The module should automatically load on next boot on any MacBook Air 6,x.
You may need to follow the directions suggested in #65 and do the following:
usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/98-mba6bl.conf
.Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Graphics"
Driver "Intel"
Option "Backlight" "mba6x_backlight"
EndSection
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf
or move it to a backup directory.$ reboot
.You can either follow the long route https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kernel/Dev/DKMSPackaging, or
download a pre-made .deb.zip file of v1.1.0 from
https://github.com/patjak/mba6x_bl/files/505288/mba6xbl-dkms_1.1.0_all.deb.zip,
which can be installed with dpkg -i
. (Installing v1.0.0 can result in build errors; see #55.)
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir6-2/Trusty#Backlight
An Arch Linux prepared package can be found at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mba6x_bl-dkms/
A Gentoo ebuild can be had at https://github.com/chrisperelstein/gentoo-overlay/blob/master/x11-drivers/mba6x_bl/mba6x_bl-9999.ebuild. You can install with layman -o https://github.com/chrisperelstein/gentoo-overlay/raw/master/overlay.xml -a chrisperelstein
, unmasking by adding =x11-drivers/mba6x_bl-9999::chrisperelstein **
to /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords, followed by emerge mba6x_bl
.