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[Žygimantas Beručka <zygimantas.b@xxxxxxxxx>]

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 <1040557@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 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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Title:
  UEFI boot live-usb bricks SAMSUNG 530U3C,np700z5c laptop

Status in Ubuntu CD image build software:
  Invalid
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu quantal series:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Committed
Status in “linux” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” source package in Precise:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  I cannot provide detailed log massages because laptop is bricked right
  now.

  If you have courage to try it select UEFI boot from bios and than try
  to boot laptop using liveusb (made form Precise Pangolin 12.04.1
  amd64).

  Laptop hangs up in black screen. If you force power-off, after it,
  laptop wont start. I mean it not event start bios, just black screen
  no sounds nothing.

  I filing this report, because i already bricked second laptop. At
  first i thought it was unrelated issue and laptop was fixed by
  warranty service (replaced motherboard), but after second time i quite
  sure.

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