MacBook Ambient Light Sensor Drivers for Windows

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Solution 1

No, there's no compatible ALS driver for Win 7 x64 yet. Many have asked, none have found so far.

Solution 2

This might help :
MacBook Tray Tools - Drivers for keyboard backlight and sensors of your MacBook / Pro.

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What is it?

If you happened to be a happy MacBook / MacBook Pro owner running Windows with Bootcamp, you surely felt annoyed of current lack of driver support for some neat features offered by this beautiful piece of hardware. For example the keyboard backlight and automatic brightness adjustment based on environment light is completely lacking any drivers. How long would it take for Apple to release the complete set of drivers and how well the Apple hardware will be supported under Windows compared to Mac OS X, nobody can say for sure. The recent release of Bootcamp did not include this support.

I put together a small tray resident application which lets you activate and control the keyboard light, it also accesses the light sensors to resemble the automatic light adjustment to the environment light as you know it fromMac OS X.

Solution 3

I tried it under XP with SP3 and it choked my machine... I was barely able to stop the process.

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Brian Reiter

I am the co-owner of a small software development firm based in Washington, DC. We have a web-based hybrid CRM/Applicant tracking product called PeopleMatrix. In addition to the off-the-shelf build we use the PeopleMatrix engine (and other technologies) to build custom-tailored CRM, financial and business process automation systems. A lot of this custom work involves integration with heterogenous and legacy environments. It's great to design and build a system that people use to solve real problems and I love the intellectual challenge.

Updated on September 17, 2022

Comments

Brian Reiter over 1 year

Is there a way to enable the ambient light sensor on a MacBook Pro unibody while running Windows? I'm particularly interested in a compatible driver for use in Windows 7 x64.
Brian Reiter over 14 years

I saw that, too. It was last updated over 3 years ago, which gives me pause.
harrymc over 14 years

Might still work, though.
Brian Reiter over 14 years

If it was open source code then it might work. Unfortunately it has no chance of working because it has a dependency on inpout32.dll. The code would need to be reworked and liked to inpoutx64.dll to have a hope of working on Win7 x64. It is a good idea, though.
harrymc over 14 years

Can't you run it in compatibility mode?
Brian Reiter over 14 years

Not possible. You can't use 32-bit drivers in 64-bit Windows.
harrymc over 14 years

In that case, caliban was right.
Brian Reiter over 14 years

Are you referring to the MacBook tray tools mentioned by "harrymc"?