Re: [Bug 1088992] Re: Sony backlight brightness controls not working in 12.10

2013-08-12 Thread Dave Peck
/2012 Regards, David Peck. On 9 August 2013 03:23, Christopher M. Penalver christopher.m.penal...@gmail.com wrote: Dave Peck, as per http://www.sony.co.uk/support/en/product/SVE1712C5E/updates an update is available for your BIOS (R0170D6). If you update to this, does it change anything

[Bug 1088992] Re: Sony backlight brightness controls not working in 12.10

2012-12-15 Thread Dave Peck
kernel-unable-to-test-upstream Not possible to log into Unity using upstream kernel so cannot confirm if bug is fixed or not. ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1088992] Re: Sony backlight brightness controls not working in 12.10

2012-12-12 Thread Dave Peck
I have installed and tested the v3.7 kernel as requested. Unfortunately the v3.7 kernel does not fix the problem and it makes Unity fail to load. With no additional kernel command line parameters Ubuntu boots, but when it gets to the point where the Unity login screen should appear all I get is

Re: [Bug 1088992] Re: Sony backlight brightness controls not working in 12.10

2012-12-12 Thread Dave Peck
Hi Joseph. I don't know if you've seen my update regarding testing of this bug, but if not I've reproduced it below for your reference - I have installed and tested the v3.7 kernel as requested. Unfortunately the v3.7 kernel does not fix the problem and it makes Unity fail to load. With no

[Bug 1088992] [NEW] Sony backlight brightness controls not working in 12.10

2012-12-11 Thread Dave Peck
Public bug reported: I have recently updated from 12.04 LTS to 12.10 to enable better support for UEFI booting on my machine. Now that I have updated to 12.10 the brightness controls no longer work. They were working fine in Version 12.04 LTS. I have been debugging this problem with a very