Comment 27 for bug 1851340

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John Hartley (graphdrum) wrote :

Hi Daniel & Po-Hsu Lin,

Did some further testing against: linux-image-5.3.0-40-generic/eoan-proposed

<<INSTALL KERNEL VIA EOEM-PROPOSED>>
$ sudo apt install linux-headers-5.3.0-40-generic/eoan-proposed linux-image-5.3.0-40-generic/eoan-proposed linux-headers-5.3.0-40/eoan-proposed linux-modules-5.3.0-40-generic/eoan-proposed linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-40-generic/eoan-proposed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-modules-5.3.0-40-generic is already the newest version (5.3.0-40.32).
linux-modules-5.3.0-40-generic set to manually installed.
Selected version '5.3.0-40.32' (Ubuntu:19.10/eoan-proposed [amd64]) for 'linux-headers-5.3.0-40-generic'
Selected version '5.3.0-40.32' (Ubuntu:19.10/eoan-proposed [amd64]) for 'linux-image-5.3.0-40-generic'
Selected version '5.3.0-40.32' (Ubuntu:19.10/eoan-proposed [all]) for 'linux-headers-5.3.0-40'
Selected version '5.3.0-40.32' (Ubuntu:19.10/eoan-proposed [amd64]) for 'linux-modules-5.3.0-40-generic'
Selected version '5.3.0-40.32' (Ubuntu:19.10/eoan-proposed [amd64]) for 'linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-40-generic'
Suggested packages:
  fdutils linux-doc-5.3.0 | linux-source-5.3.0 linux-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-5.3.0-40 linux-headers-5.3.0-40-generic linux-image-5.3.0-40-generic linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-40-generic
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 59.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 285 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-proposed/main amd64 linux-headers-5.3.0-40 all 5.3.0-40.32 [11.0 MB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-proposed/main amd64 linux-headers-5.3.0-40-generic amd64 5.3.0-40.32 [1,231 kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-proposed/main amd64 linux-image-5.3.0-40-generic amd64 5.3.0-40.32 [8,653 kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan-proposed/main amd64 linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-40-generic amd64 5.3.0-40.32 [38.2 MB]
Fetched 59.1 MB in 17s (3,531 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-5.3.0-40.
(Reading database ... 258418 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-headers-5.3.0-40_5.3.0-40.32_all.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-5.3.0-40 (5.3.0-40.32) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-5.3.0-40-generic.
Preparing to unpack .../linux-headers-5.3.0-40-generic_5.3.0-40.32_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-5.3.0-40-generic (5.3.0-40.32) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-5.3.0-40-generic.
Preparing to unpack .../linux-image-5.3.0-40-generic_5.3.0-40.32_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-image-5.3.0-40-generic (5.3.0-40.32) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-40-generic.
Preparing to unpack .../linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-40-generic_5.3.0-40.32_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-40-generic (5.3.0-40.32) ...
Setting up linux-headers-5.3.0-40 (5.3.0-40.32) ...
Setting up linux-image-5.3.0-40-generic (5.3.0-40.32) ...
I: /boot/vmlinuz.old is now a symlink to vmlinuz-5.3.0-29-generic
I: /boot/initrd.img.old is now a symlink to initrd.img-5.3.0-29-generic
I: /boot/vmlinuz is now a symlink to vmlinuz-5.3.0-40-generic
I: /boot/initrd.img is now a symlink to initrd.img-5.3.0-40-generic
Setting up linux-modules-extra-5.3.0-40-generic (5.3.0-40.32) ...
Setting up linux-headers-5.3.0-40-generic (5.3.0-40.32) ...
Processing triggers for linux-image-5.3.0-40-generic (5.3.0-40.32) ...
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/initramfs-tools:
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-40-generic
I: The initramfs will attempt to resume from /dev/sdb1
I: (UUID=c5e6fc8e-d834-4241-900e-31e19c7ef230)
I: Set the RESUME variable to override this.
/etc/kernel/postinst.d/zz-update-grub:
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub'
Sourcing file `/etc/default/grub.d/init-select.cfg'
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-40-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-40-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-29-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-29-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-26-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-26-generic
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.3.0-24-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-5.3.0-24-generic
Adding boot menu entry for EFI firmware configuration
done

$ sudo reboot
...

$ uname -a
uname -a
Linux green 5.3.0-40-generic #32-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jan 31 20:24:34 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

<<END INSTALL KERNEL VIA EOEM-PROPOSED>>

Can you advise is this is kernel with fix, I ask as review of details does not appear to have reference to this bug.

My first lot of testing via console is positives, as with this kernel version, I now get cursor available on my machine.

Cheers,

John.