On 24/07/11 09:15, Alan Pope wrote:
On 24 July 2011 08:46, scoundrel50a<[email protected]> wrote:
On 24/07/11 08:34, Alan Pope wrote:
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.....
Well, the url you got it from is:-
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.0-rc1-oneiric/linux-image-3.0.0-0300rc1-generic_3.0.0-0300rc1.201105310830_amd64.deb
Ah Well, you missed something, the url I got it from was and already posted
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.0-rc1-oneiric/
<http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v3.0-rc1-oneiric/>
The title that comes on top of that page is
Index of /~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.0-rc1-oneiric
I chose the .deb package from found on the page......
linux-headers-3.0.0-0300rc1-generic_3.0.0-0300rc1.201105310830_amd64.deb
<http://kernel.ubuntu.com/%7Ekernel-ppa/mainline/v3.0-rc1-oneiric/linux-headers-3.0.0-0300rc1-generic_3.0.0-0300rc1.201105310830_amd64.deb>
Bit of confusion, url mentions oneiric, and title of page mentions oneiric
Slightly different to what you posted...........where in any of that
does it say there its Linux based on/for oneiric. Only when you get to
choose the package is where it forgets to mention oneiric.......to you
that is accepted to me it is confusing.....
The word 'kernel' appears twice, and 'Linux' appears once.
However it's largely irrelevant. I'm not saying you _should_ know,
just clearing up what was said on IRC yesterday. So now you do know.
What you're doing is a relatively advanced thing. We don't often
recommend people go off and install random kernels to see if they fix
a problem, and manually installing debs isn't exactly an everyday
occurrence, so it's hardly surprising you didn't pick up on the subtle
differences. Anyway, now that's cleared up.
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,
Well, this is a bit tricky. You need to find at which kernel release
the issue started happening. Once you know that you can do a 'git
bisect' to exact change that was made which broke the backlight.
There's an interesting blog (albeit about Gentoo, not Ubuntu) about it
here:-
http://www.reactivated.net/weblog/archives/2006/01/using-git-bisect-to-find-buggy-kernel-patches
I have no chance.........popey had a look, spent ages trying different
things via ssh, nothing worked, if he cant, I dont have a chance.......
(snipped)
Sure, it's frustrating, that's clear.
Al.
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