Comment 28 for bug 1392460

On 11/28/2014 12:32 AM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
> James Cobban, as the article now more specifically advises, one would
> have to uninstall bcmwl first before installing the mainline kernel.
>
> As well, the article does not advise to run linux-headers-3.18* to
> uninstall a package. It advises to do the exact package name on a per
> package basis.
>
OK. I removed the bcmwl proprietary driver. I downloaded the 3 .deb
files for amd64. You provide no procedure for performing that download
in any obvious way. For example how am I supposed to obtain the proper
names for a wget command or to download them by ftp to a specific
directory. In Firefox double clicking on each entry downloads it into
the Downloads directory, not into the recommended separate directory.
This is part of what I mean when I say your documentation is vague. I
installed, and booted. The system now boots on kernel 3.18-rc6. There
is no observable change in behavior from kernel 3.16. The system
displays disk activity consistent with normal resume processing, but the
back-light on my display is not turned on, so I have no choice but to
manually reboot even though the system is completely operational in all
other respects. For example I can ssh, ftp, even http to the system.

Kernel 3.16 seems to have resolved all of the actual suspend/resume
problems I had on previous releases. But at least most of the time the
earlier kernels and drivers would turn on the back-light when they felt
like resuming at all.

I would stop bothering the kernel group and the X.org team if someone
would just give me a manual command to turn on the damn light! I can
ssh into the system to issue the command.

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