Let's add support to other Samsung netbooks

[multiscan]

Please add Samsung R425/R525 model. Thanks.

[voria]

Done.

[matt]

Hi,

I might be wrong but it looked to me like samsung-backlight support not only netbooks but also
some notebooks. I have a R780 running Ubuntu Lucid (64 bits).

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$ sudo dmidecode -s system-manufacturer
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
R780/R778

The package samsung-tools works as it added support for the Fn keys.
I am getting trouble with the backlight.

The GPU on R780 is GeForce GT 330M (chip GT 216)

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$ lspci |grep nVidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2)

The command

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echo 6 > /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/samsung/brightness

has no effect. The Fn+Up/Down keys relate to gnome-power-manager with no effect on actual brightness either.

I had a look at the mactel ppa (https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support/+archive/ppa) that provides the package nvidia-bl-dkms (I used version 0.16.10~lucid). With that I succeed to get control over brightess using the command

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echo 1000 > /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/nvidia_backlight/brightness

Unfortunately, I could not link this to the Fn keys for control.

Here are my questions:
Does samsung-backlight work with some nVidia cards?
Do you have any suggestion?
Do you think support for R780 could be added to the project?
Thanks in advance.

[matt]

Finally backlight works perfectly if I remove the module samsung-backlight (that is apparently made for intel GPUs) and I use the nvidia-bl module from mactel ppa, loaded with parameters: max_level=0x1ffff shift=11.
Then I get full control of the brightness with the Fn keys.
samsung-tools is perfect for Samsung R780 too.
Congratulations for your work!

[louder]

Please add
R509
best regards

[voria]

Done.

[KunalGautam]

Samsung R528 is fully supported,

FN + F2 = Power Information
FN + F3 = Webcam on/off
FN + F5 = Backlight off
FN + F6 = Sound off
FN + F9 = WiFi on/off
FN + F10 = Touchpad on/off
FN + ESC = Sleep
FN + Uparrow key = Bright Up
FN + DownArrow = Bright Down
FN + Leftkey = Sound Low
FN + RightKey = Sound High

Just have to add "acpi_vendor=backlight" argument in grub for brightness thing working .
Fan/processor speed also working

[Sergio]

Please add R420/R470
Thanks.

[voria]

Please add R420/R470
Thanks.

Done.

[aimaim]

Please add V30 model (it's too old but hardware buttons doesn't work)

[xixx]

Finally backlight works perfectly if I remove the module samsung-backlight (that is apparently made for intel GPUs) and I use the nvidia-bl module from mactel ppa, loaded with parameters: max_level=0x1ffff shift=11.
Then I get full control of the brightness with the Fn keys.
samsung-tools is perfect for Samsung R780 too.
Congratulations for your work!

Well, I managed to install nvidia_bl module, but Fn+Up/Down doesn't change the backlight level. Could you please describe in more details, how it should be configured?

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All is working, just reboot and add to the /etc/modules nvidia_bl max_level=0x1ffff shift=11

Great!

(Ubuntu 10.10 x64 on R780)

[Tyman]

Please add R410
Thanks.

[Sebasdf]

Everytime the kernel updates, I have to change the settings manually for 320/P320. Can you add official support for this model? Thanks.

[MyKenigsberg]

Please add R510/P510
Thanks!

[crandrad]

Please add support to Q430/Q530 model too plz !!