[Bug 1399611] Re: 8086:0046 [Acer Aspire 5742] Screen brightness not working

2015-02-10 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1399611

[Bug 1399611] Re: 8086:0046 [Acer Aspire 5742] Screen brightness not working

2014-12-12 Thread Merlijn Sebrechts
Hi Christopher. Apparently the problem is now fixed in the mainline kernel. Even if I test it now with the 3.18 rc7 kernel, it is fixed. The problem is still there if I use the 3.14 kernel, however. I do not know how this happened. I suspect that after upgrading the bios, I did not check with the

[Bug 1399611] Re: 8086:0046 [Acer Aspire 5742] Screen brightness not working

2014-12-12 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Merlijn Sebrechts, no need to further e-mail any mailing list at this time. Anyone who is interested will look at the downstream report. Despite this, the next step is to fully reverse commit bisect from kernel 3.14 to 3.18-rc7 in order to identify the last bad commit, followed immediately by the

[Bug 1399611] Re: 8086:0046 [Acer Aspire 5742] Screen brightness not working

2014-12-09 Thread Merlijn Sebrechts
http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpim=141812936311813w=2 Is this ok? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1399611 Title: 8086:0046 [Acer Aspire 5742] Screen brightness not working To manage

[Bug 1399611] Re: 8086:0046 [Acer Aspire 5742] Screen brightness not working

2014-12-09 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Merlijn Sebrechts, I noticed two issues: 1) You didn't you the latest mainline kernel (now 3.18). I just updated the article to help mitigate this in the future. 2) You posted some forum link as a workaround. As the article advised, please do not make people dumpster dive through forums.