Hi Dinki (curious-mitchell) I think the point is that this laptop IS supplied AND certified for Ubuntu single boot and as so is supplied in BIOS (they say Legacy) mode. The LCD back-light issue appeared as a regression for the ones who stayed in BIOS mode, but also appeared for those who switched to UEFI in the aim of double boot with win8. I can't say which ones was the first to meet the problem. **Maybe** using an elder Win compatible with BIOS **could** be a workaround. The Intel features furbished with UEFI are not supported in Linux, and Mr Linus himself explained why he thinks EFI "sucks" http://kerneltrap.org/node/6884 http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/02/linus-torvalds-i-will-not-change-linux-to-deep-throat-microsoft/ https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/QLe3tSmtSM4
Maybe this all could help you understanding why we have this "such an ongoing issue" More: searching about the issue, I found here on launchpad that there are 2 different machines about which the issue is reported: the Dell l322x and the former l321x, both called xps13, what maybe has added confusion. For me, I bought this l322x certified with Ubuntu because I was fed up with old laptops still having various issues with some piece of hardware in Linux, and at the same time I decided to forgive Windows. Although I am quite newby in Linux and forgiving Windows is another issue for me, I ***decided*** this is my price for the price. Whatever I must admit that even once this huge step is walked, small issues remain in my l322x, such as hibernation/thaw hanging sometimes, always-on blue-tooth on reboot, a small keyboard back-light miss-behaviour and a touch-pad that I can't set as I want, but maybe this is because I decided to jump into Raring (for which I knew the laptop **was not certified** although it was claimed that all sputnik stuff was embedded) at the same time I reinstalled the OS to remove the bunch of MS-DOS partitions upon which the supplied 12.04 was supplied (now a single / and swap are enough, and even this last is for hibernation only). To end in an honest remark, I never had real issues while installing Services Pack onto either clients and servers machines from WinNT4 to Win7, and I must admit that the rhythm and depth of changes in Ubuntu remains frightening to me. Have a good day -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1163720 Title: Brightness control broken on XPS13 with 3.8.0-16 and 3.8.0-22 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/1163720/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
