Linux On My Samsung

Another update: Since I couldn't make HDMI sound work with radeon, I returned to fglrx and installed 11.11 driver. Using Gnome 3 is not so bad if I do sudo aticonfig --set-pcs-u32=DDX,EnableTearFreeDesktop,1 sudo aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,EnableRandR12,FALSE sudo aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceX...

It works, but only with fglrx drivers. It seems that 3.0 kernel are able to output HDMI from radeon if activated with one more parameter (radeon.audio=1) but I can't make it work. That and the flicker bug are the last challenges.

I'm glad I could help :) Just to conclude (for now) my adventure, I must confess I had a final problem. Since I prefer Gnome3 over Unity, I found that the combination fglrx+Gnome3 is extremely unstable, even with the latest 11.11 driver, so I returned to the open source radeon driver which is much b...

Trying to understand the differences. Tell me if you want to compare any other configuration My Samsung is a R540-JT02PT running Ubuntu 11.10 64 bits. Unity and gnome-shell installed. lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp...

Did you install samsung-backlight too? I'm using the 'old' samsung-tools v. 1.5. Did you do an update-grub?

I just registered to tell my experience with the voria tools (thanks a lot for your work). I've been using samsung-backlight on 11.04 with success. When I upgraded to oneiric I had a hard time to make it work, particularly the brightness keys (FN up/down). As I've been aware, R540 is not in the comp...