Linux On My Samsung

There was a change in a recent kernel which required adding this to your bootloader kernel parameters if you have an Intel card in order to control brightness:

video.use_native_backlight=0

Don't know if this would work for you as I only tried it on Arch and it solved my brightness issues.

Hi, I managed to get the touchpad working with multitouch in Arch using the driver from the third comment (brenix) here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/psmouse-elantech/ Hope that helps. Also for the SD card reader as I said in this post I had to edit some values and recompile: http://www.voria....

Hi,

If anyone is having trouble with getting the realtek card reader rts5139 working this posst may be helpful: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1500485

You need to make the changes mentioned, recompile the module and load it.

Chrishas

Hi, I want to install linux on my new NP740U3E-a01ub but don't want to risk bricking it, is this issue solved?