Linux On My Samsung

If I understood mgala correctly, he was not correctly expressed.
This function allows not to charge a netbook through usb, but charge peripheral devices from an usb of netbook.

voRia wrote:but the battery life will always be shorter than on windows.

Why it so?

mdhooge wrote:Can you test with your hardware?

I tested, it didn't work on n308 in XFCE and KDE

When I log in at the xubuntu, both "gnome-power-manager" and "xfce4-power manager" is starting. I also tried to use only one of them, and was no changes. Now I uninstalled gnome-power manager and left only XFCE4-power-manager, because there was a conflict between them.

I understood now.
By the way, I install xubuntu-desktop (XFCE), and there regulation of brightness works in the logon screen (OSD is working). But after logon in the system, stops to be regulated.
Also I tried lubuntu-desktop (LXDE), and there brightness regulation is working fine!

voRia wrote:Well, things are changed now, the current 'samsung-backlight' available on the repository is the one from the 'easy-slow-down-manager' project

I see that only samsung-tools is recently updated on repository... Not the samsung-backlight.

I have new packages ready for both karmic and lucid, adding support for N308 and R710, I'll upload them on the repository in the next few hours. ;) Thanks. After installation of 'samsung-backlight' on my n308 it is possible to set only the maximal or minimum level of backlight (without intermediate...

Hi! I am also interested in support of N308. Can you please add Samsung N308 model support to your package. It's almost N310 (even package box states it as N310). Difference is in marketing. Sure, but I also need the output of the command: sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name it's returns a string:...