Linux On My Samsung

I have installed this PPA on a Linux Mint 15. Backlight works with Fn-F5, Wireless works with Fn-F9 and other keys work too. Only the Fn+Up/Down arrows don't work to adjust brightness. The OSD for brightness comes up but the brightness does not actually change. The Fn+Right/Left arrows work fine to ...

Updated to the new voria 2.6.35-27 kernel which is available from today. The brightness control with Fn+up/down in N148 still does not seem to work. The rest of the functions with the Fn button seem to work OK.
There is also another strange problem which I am not sure is related to this. When I ...

I installed Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 on a Samsung N148. Then I installed the required updates from the voria repository. Most things worked except the brightness control with the Fn+up/down arrow combination. Since it seems that the current Maverick kernel will not work for brightness control, I used ...

I confirm what Steph says.. the backlight, brightness Fn keys and wireless keys do not work with the current kernel update 2.6.32-23-generic from the voria repo on Samsung N148 and N150.

First of all I want to thank Voria for this really incredibly useful forum and the tremendous work he is doing for improving the Linux experience on Samsung netbooks etc.

I bought a Samsung N148 netbook for a few specific reasons. I trust the Samsung brand which has very good after sales service ...