Comment 25 for bug 1169376

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Koos (k-meijering) wrote : Re: XPS13 backlight stopped working after update 3.8.0-18.28

Hi

I've also tested this build of the kernel and I can confirm it is working.
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$ uname -a
Linux XPS-L322X 3.8.0-18-generic #28+lp1169376 SMP Fri Apr 19 00:33:04 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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answer on Adrian's question
search for the installed kernels:

$ dpkg --get-selections | grep linux
libselinux1:amd64 install
libselinux1:i386 install
linux-firmware install
linux-generic install
linux-headers-3.8.0-19 install
linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic install
linux-headers-generic install
linux-image-3.8.0-18-generic install
linux-image-3.8.0-19-generic install
linux-image-extra-3.8.0-18-generic install
linux-image-extra-3.8.0-19-generic install
linux-image-generic install
linux-libc-dev:amd64 install
linux-sound-base install
pptp-linux install
syslinux install
syslinux-common install
syslinux-legacy install
util-linux install

now you see the installed kernels.
In the case you would remove the 3.8.0-18 kernel the following command will do it

$ dpkg --get-selections | grep linux
libselinux1:amd64 install
libselinux1:i386 install
linux-firmware install
linux-generic install
linux-headers-3.8.0-19 install
linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic install
linux-headers-generic install
linux-image-3.8.0-18-generic install
linux-image-3.8.0-19-generic install
linux-image-extra-3.8.0-18-generic install
linux-image-extra-3.8.0-19-generic install
linux-image-generic install
linux-libc-dev:amd64 install
linux-sound-base install
pptp-linux install
syslinux install
syslinux-common install
syslinux-legacy install
util-linux install

in the case you would like to remove the 3.8.0-18 version the following command will do it:
$ sudo dpkg --purge linux-image-3.8.0-18-generic linux-image-extra-3.8.0-18-generic