Comment 21 for bug 1167114

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Luis Henriques (henrix) wrote :

Kernel 3.5.0-27.46 contained a bunch of changes to the radeon driver. Since most (all?) the bug reporters seem to be using a radeon graphic card, I've built a test kernel with all these changes reverted:

ea7e2ec Revert "drm/radeon: add new AMD ACPI header and update relevant code (v2)"
02f3061 Revert "drm/radeon: add a license header to radeon_apci.c"
665bfe9 Revert "drm/radeon: track whether the GPU controls the backlight (v2)"
9acd16c Revert "drm/radeon: rework legacy backlight control"
e09a7a2 Revert "drm/radeon: add backlight control for atom devices (v2)"
d934c3c Revert "drm/radeon: refactor radeon_atif_call"
dfa4cad Revert "drm/radeon: implement radeon_atif_verify_interface"
28b9be5 Revert "drm/radeon: implement wrapper for GET_SYSTEM_PARAMS"
4fe88b6 Revert "drm/radeon: implement handler for ACPI event"
1608812 Revert "drm/radeon: re-organize the acpi notifier callback"
501544d Revert "ACPI video: allow events handlers to veto the keypress"
4ed8dc6 Revert "drm/radeon: block the keypress on ATIF events"

I've uploaded the test kernels (both amd64 and i386) here:

http://people.canonical.com/~henrix/lp1167114/

Could you please git them a try and report back? Thanks.