On 24/07/11 08:34, Alan Pope wrote:
Another thing, people who were on there the other day, when I was trying to ask
about deleting a kernel I had installed on my pc, now I said I had oneiric
3.0.0-o300rc1 oneiric, at the time I couldnt find out where I had installed it
from, but I found out now.
Yes, and this was causing some confusion. There is no such thing as
'Oneiric 3.0.0...'. What you have is the Linux Kernel 3.0.0.. built
for/on Oneiric. It's a subtle difference but important when trying to
articulate what the issue was.
See, this is where it is confusing, to me that says its Oneiric, where
does it say its Linux, built for/on Oneiric, it doesnt. How am I
supposed to know that? That is why I am confused, which makes it
confusing for everybody else.....
As I understand it you're running Ubuntu 10.10, and had manually
installed the Linux 3.0 kernel from the mainline ppa. You did this to
see if the backlight issue you have is fixed in a later kernel. I
doubt that repeatedly installing newer kernels will magically fix the
backlight issue you have.
What probably really needs to be done is to figure out at what point
the kernel (or whatever) broke the backlight issue. Sometime between
the kernel supplied with Ubuntu 10.10 and the one supplied with Ubuntu
11.04 a change was made which broke it. Finding exactly which change
(or changes) did that is not easy.
How will that happen, it isnt just my an Acer Aspire thing, its wide
ranging? Plus, I am not installing the kernels to magically fix the
backlight problem, I was trying to use it to see if the back light
problem was fixed. Installing just the kernel is easier than the whole
thing, knowing that I might have to install 10.10 again.I dont want to
have to keep asking.......not when it causes all those problems
everytime I join the channel. There are loads of you, and just one of
me, and its gets very intimidating.......this could be the last Kernel I
will be able to use on this machine, and its almost brand new, when I
say that its 4 months old......
Al.
John
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