Comment 233 for bug 1040557

Calant, let me put it this way. There were no confirmations either from
SAMSUNG or from Ubuntu/kernel devs that the fixes released necessarily
solve those issues (no info from SAMSUNG at all). However, as you can see,
there are almost no new reports that people are still facing the issue.

If you are interested in my way of dealing with the situation, as I wrote
somewhere above, I installed vanilla 13.04 (it already has the
hypothetically bug triggering 'samsung-laptop' module disabled) and
afterwards (on the first boot) made sure to have a 3.10 kernel installed
from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/. (Just in case; as 3.10
– still a -rc at the time – was the first kernel containing some
significant Matthew Garrett's anti-bricking patches that should in theory
remove even a slightest possibility to be affected by the issue.) Have not
looked back since then, everything has been working flawlessly (I have a
530U3C-EE05 machine).

So you can wait or just do the same as I did (just take the 3.11 mainline
kernel instead, as it is already out). And I am not the only one who did
this, as you can see in this thread.

2013/9/11 calant <email address hidden>

> So I figure the safest thing to do is to wait for Ubuntu 13.10 release?
> Since this uses linux kernel 3.11 which contains the anti brick patch?
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