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[Gabriel Devenyi <ace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

apport information

** Tags added: apport-collected saucy

** Description changed:

  Bug has been ongoing since 3.10-rc6
  
  Certain UEFI laptops incorrectly report their BPP on their display,
  causing kernel modesetting to fail
  
  Full details see:
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59841
  
  Developers have refused to quirk the regression, causing no display on a
  a large number of systems.
  
- Upgraded installations will boot with no display, and the installer will
- have no display.
+ Upgraded installations will boot with no display, and the installer will have no display.
+ --- 
+ ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
+ Architecture: amd64
+ DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
+ MarkForUpload: True
+ Package: linux (not installed)
+ Tags:  saucy
+ Uname: Linux 3.12.0-rc5-custom x86_64
+ UnreportableReason: The running kernel is not an Ubuntu kernel
+ UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-17 (3 days ago)
+ UserGroups: adm audio backup bluetooth bumblebee cdrom dip fuse lp lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare scanner sudo vboxusers video

** Attachment added: "ProcEnviron.txt"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241871/+attachment/3885660/+files/ProcEnviron.txt

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241871

Title:
  13.10 kernels (3.11.x) Fail to light up certain intel backlights

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Bug has been ongoing since 3.10-rc6

  Certain UEFI laptops incorrectly report their BPP on their display,
  causing kernel modesetting to fail

  Full details see:
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59841

  Developers have refused to quirk the regression, causing no display on
  a a large number of systems.

  Upgraded installations will boot with no display, and the installer will have no display.
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  MarkForUpload: True
  Package: linux (not installed)
  Tags:  saucy
  Uname: Linux 3.12.0-rc5-custom x86_64
  UnreportableReason: The running kernel is not an Ubuntu kernel
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-17 (3 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm audio backup bluetooth bumblebee cdrom dip fuse lp lpadmin netdev plugdev sambashare scanner sudo vboxusers video

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