Comment 20 for bug 1761261

So I built a kernel from the Upstream LTS (4.17.3) and tried to apply the patch, which failed. So I removed it and tried a clean build and was able to get Xenial to boot up with this kernel. I then decided to install Bionic and install this kernel on my laptop however, I noticed that when I downloaded the latest version (as of July 2, 2018) the laptop display worked. I checked and I am running Bionic with the 4.15.0-24 kernel. I then installed the NVIDIA proprietary drivers and low and behold the laptop is working. (I had to modify my grub to include nouveau.modeset=0 since after logging in the display would hang, but after passing the kernel parameter everything worked out of the box.)

This is quite amazing! I'm going to check out the ChangeLog to see what patches you have running on this.

For the most part, things are working normally. I did notice if I try to go to the TTY1 or TTY2, I get the GNOME login Screen on TTY1 and my normal desktop on TTY2, but TTY3-6 are standard terminals. The brightness control keys still do not work, but the touchpad works so far from initial testing (Haven't tried the 5 finger test on it yet, but 4 fingers works) and the hibernate issue when the lid closes seems to be fixed since I was able to resume when I opened the laptop and pressed space bar to turn it back on.

I will continue to test, but we may have a winner winner chicken dinner for this bug.

Thanks!!