Linux On My Samsung

Having spent a couple of hours prodding around trying to find the root of the problem, I think I am a little closer. On the first login (before restarting gdm), where brightness cannot be changed using the Fn+up/down shortcut (but can using setpci), I did the follwing: # rmmod samsung_backlight # mo...

Apologies for posting a second time -- I could not see how to edit my previous post. Anyway, further to my last post, all I need to do to fix the backlight problem is drop down into tty1 (Alt+Ctrl+F1), log in and restart gdm, i.e. Any ideas on how this might be working?

I posted this on another thread, but thought it would be relevant here. I have a weird problem in that on my Samsung N150 Plus, with Natty (64-bit). I have voRia's ppa with samsung_backlight and samsung_tools installed. When I first boot up my netbook and then log in to the unity desktop, the bright...

I'm having a weird issue with Natty (64-bit) on my Samsung N150 Plus. When I boot up my laptop and log in to the Unity environment, brightness cannot be changed, though the on screen display shows the brightness level apparently changing when the function keys are changed. When I log out, the bright...

I have just been testing Natty beta 1 on my N150 Plus. It seems to work pretty well. Out of the box the following work: * Wifi. It looks like Natty includes a new driver for the Broadcom card (brcm80211). It is offering me the choice to install the Broadcom third party driver, though the brcm80211 d...