Comment 33 for bug 1392460

On 12/10/2014 06:47 PM, Christopher M. Penalver wrote:
> James Cobban, 3.18-rc6 is not 3.18.
>
I was explicitly told to try out 3.18-rc6. Prior to that I was told to
try 3.18-rc5, and before that to try 3.16 which I did by migrating to
14.10, which I did not want to do because it is not an LTS release. I
was NEVER told to try out 3.18 in any other version. As far as I am
concerned the kernel team are desperately trying to find any excuse to
not actually look at the problem. I have explained that I do not
understand the instructions on exactly what to do to test out a kernel,
and all you seem to have the time for is to criticize my stupidity,
rather than explain exactly what it is that I have to do. My laptop has
been marginally useful for over TWO years because resume doesn't turn on
the backlight! Kernel 3.16 in Ubuntu 14.10 seems to have addressed
every other suspend/resume issue I had, but the backlight is STILL not
being turned on, and that means suspend/resume is unusable on my laptop.
I am sick and tired of reporting this problem again every time I change
releases, with no results. I appreciate that you are all volunteers but
how hard can it be to turn on the backlight? I have begged the X-org
team for a command to turn on the backlight, and the only response I get
is "The driver should turn on the backlight." Well it doesn't.

Please tell me PRECISELY what I have to do. The lack of precision in
your instructions so far have wasted your time and mine.

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