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Not that I need it but just to squeeze every penny from my mac book pro 4,1 (Penryn):
First enable the MacTel repositories in your

/etc/apt/sources.list

file:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mactel-support/ubuntu intrepid main

then a

apt-get update

and finally install the hal-applesmc for the mactel stuff.
Now add the applesmc to your

/etc/modules

file to load the module at boot time or just

modprobe applesmc

to load it now.
This should make the f1/f2 function keys adjust the LCD brightness. Pressing f5/f6 didn’t switch on the keyboard back light for me but

echo 100 | sudo tee  /sys/class/leds/smc\:\:kbd_backlight/brightness

seems to do the trick.