A workaround is per defintion not a solution to the underlying problem which I and others have described a couple of times.
However, with kernel modesetting disabled I have not been able to reproduce the second issue that I mentioned in comment #80. Can you please describe how to reproduce the flickering that you experience while kms is disabled? -- brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415023 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs