Hi Christopher, I eventually managed to find the fix commit (this took me ages).
$ git bisect bad 751109aad5834375ca9ed0dcfcd85a00cbf872b5 is the first bad commit commit 751109aad5834375ca9ed0dcfcd85a00cbf872b5 Author: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com> Date: Thu Jun 5 22:47:35 2014 +0200 ACPI / video: Change the default for video.use_native_backlight to 1 Now that we're hoping to have resolved all of the problems with video.use_native_backlight=1, make that the default at last. Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=139716088401106&w=2 Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wyso...@intel.com> :040000 040000 d8f9ae057c052cd94f1adcfc0b298db2c728a315 933b38080034b141fc0c31f54f38f5b232f69c17 M drivers -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1335458 Title: [Toshiba Satellite Z930-164] Backlight control does not work, but there are entries in /sys/class/backlight To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1335458/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs