Hello again, I eventually have the i915/Intel HD4000 work along the 3.8 kernel: one must pass "i915.invert_brightness=1" kernel parameter
# lspci -vvv -nn -s 00:02.0 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0589] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 44 Region 0: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M] Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 4: I/O ports at 2000 [size=64] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: i915 Kernel modules: i915 As for the Cypress Trackpad, it got even worse: it is now recognised a "ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse", which is a regression compared to Quantal 3.5 Kernel: # xinput list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Atmel Atmel maXTouch Digitizer id=9 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse id=12 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] [...] ** Tags removed: kernel-unable-to-test-upstream ** Tags added: kernel-bug-exists-upstream -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1103594 Title: Cypress Trackpad wrongly (?) detected as "PS/2 Cypress Trackpad" ("evdev *pointer* catchall") on XPS 12 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1103594/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs