Linux On My Samsung

I've found out that I can change the brightness by echoing to /sys/class/backlight/samsung/brightness So there is no problem with the kernel, but probably mate? When I use the function keys to change the brightness, it displays the slider, but it doesn't move. Something with permissions maybe? Anywa...

After my last update, I'm unable to change the backlight. I've previously installed samsung-tools 2.16 from the AUR and added acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor to /etc/default/grub. I am using the kernel version 3.6.6.1. There have also been some other problems with glib and glibc. I am also usin...

It worked!!! I am overwhelmed with joy, crying on the floor. My eyes thank you, honorable sir! Added GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor" to /etc/default/grub than ran update-grub And I recently learned that you need to select the core kernel (3.4.6) at b...

I cannot adjust the brightness of my Samsung R540 laptop for a long time. A year ago, when I had Ubuntu 10.10, installing the ATI Driver fixed my problem. But now I am using Arch Linux and my eyes are burning with the brightness of a thousand suns. When I plug in the AC adapter, it goes to max brigh...