[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1761261] Re: nouveau/nvidia drivers do not work with display in Bionic on Asus GL703VD Laptop

2018-04-17 Thread Davide Villa
Hi all, I found this bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1543769#c69 and this patch seems to solve the backlight problem (and the ELAN jercky touchpad as well) I don't know how to compile the kernel with this patch. maybe someone can build the kernel for me to test on my laptop

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1761261] Re: nouveau/nvidia drivers do not work with display in Bionic on Asus GL703VD Laptop

2018-04-12 Thread Davide Villa
Here's my log file, as requested, running on the "standard" 17.10 kernel with the latest nvidia driver. investigating my issue I tried to install the 4.15 and 4.16 series kernel using this version of the nvidia driver. the monitor works fine in the 4.15.3 version, but in the 4.15.4 and higher the

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1761261] Re: nouveau/nvidia drivers do not work with display in Bionic on Asus GL703VD Laptop

2018-04-11 Thread Davide Villa
Maybe the back-light problem is related to the patch for the Elan1200 touchpad: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1543769#c69 ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1543769 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1543769 -- You received this bug notification because you are a m

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 1761261] Re: nouveau/nvidia drivers do not work with display in Bionic on Asus GL703VD Laptop

2018-04-06 Thread Davide Villa
Same problem on my ASUS GL703VD. I tried the 18.04 beta today starting a live session with the suggested boot option (modprobe.blacklist=nouveau). I can work using an external monitor connected to the HDMI interface. The laptop display become black during the boot just after few seconds but I can