Linux On My Samsung

It appears that problem is with ACPI. dmesg says [ 521.070694] ACPI: Failed to switch the brightness cat /proc/acpi/video/IGD0/DD0*/brightness <not supported> <not supported> <not supported> levels: 7 15 24 30 45 60 80 100 current: 100 <not supported> Booting system with acpi=off enables backlight t...

Hello. I changed Ubuntu 10.04 to Xubuntu. Most features provided by the drivers and samsung-tools work fine, except for not very important ones. And there is this problem with backlight control. Should I press Fn+Brightenss Up (or Down), the backlight automatically rises up to the maximun (or falls ...

Same problem here! How to deal with it? Well, you can deal with it in multiple ways. You can use notebook cooling pad or try to undervolt the CPU. There is some hardcore modding available, but it will result in losing your warranty. If I were you, I'd start from undervolting. You can also downclock...

Thanks.

I've finally managed to install packages, everything works fine. Just a couple of times the backlight automatically went dimmer after some time of idleness (netbook was on battery). No big deal though.

Hello, I've experienced the problem with backlight and found this board. I've tried to add repository using this command: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:voria I've ended up getting message: gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect to host Attempt to add voria repository via system administration t...