Linux On My Samsung

Note to myself: When the laptop isnt used for some minutes and the power saving function tries to turn off the screen, it is nicely blended. It looks like what we all want for the brightness keys. This also works independent of the nvclock and smartdimmer applications. Thus the kernel gives an acces...

Since the command smartdimmer works, I found a gnome-pannel applet that manages adjusting the brightness with the smartdimmer/nvclock. It can be found here: http://ppa.launchpad.net/intuitivenipple/ppa/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-smartdimmer/ It would be nice, though, to make this, or the smartdimmer/n...

Ok, the "Problem" with the splash screen was easily fixed, since only plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text got installed during the upgrade and not plymouth-theme-ubuntu-logo. First I removed nvidia again and deleted the /etc/X11/xorg.conf. After a rebooting the brightness keys worked fine (the othe...

Hi, first I re-added the package acpi_support. The I opened System>Administration>Hardware Drivers and tried the alternative nvidia driver, i.e. nvidia-173, rebooted but nothing changed. So I removed all nvidia-belongings hoping that the nouveau driver automatically gets initiated (package xserver-x...

Seems to be the same problem that I have with an Q70. See http://www.voria.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=442

I had time to try the latest bios 17ST but it did not change anything compared to 11ST. It took me several hours to downgrade and then I tried 05ST, the most erly bios I got and the 09ST, which is often refered to as the best bios version. 10ST and 11ST are said to have a bug regarding the brightnes...

It turns out the problem was in the BIOS and the problem was fixed by upgrading it to latest version. The only suggestion I can give you is to update your BIOS if a newer version is available Yes, there are newer bios' available. As I said I'm using the bios 11ST but there is at least 17ST availabl...

I added the option to grub but nothing changed: $ grep vendor /boot/grub/grub.cfg linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=89587b4e-e061-457b-941f-1380f668864d ro crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor Using FN+up/down still shows the display brightness change not...

Sadly the brightness-up and brightness-down key do not do anything since I installed the packages samsung-backlight samsung-tools and samsung-wireless. Before I saw the notice from gnome about the keypress, which now has disappeared. The problem has changed a bit and is given with more details as f...

I must add I have a "special" Q70. On the sticker on the backside only NP-Q70 is written, which made the samsung support wonder, once. This is because I ordered this laptop 2 weeks before it was sold for the first time. Maybe it has some other hardware, I dont know.

Hi, your tools are just great. I didnt knew about them for the last two years and wasted a lot of time trying to fix the issues by myself. Sadly the brightness-up and brightness-down key do not do anything since I installed the packages samsung-backlight samsung-tools and samsung-wireless. Before I ...