Linux On My Samsung

Hi,
I am french, so sorry for my very bad english and I hope you can understand what I say.

I installed Xubuntu (ubuntu with XFCE) on my netbook samsung nf310 and I have a little problem.. I can ajust the brightness level only to 0 and 7, I can't have other level :(

To operate the FN key, I ...

Woulouf wrote: And you don't encounter issues like flickering screen with brightness level going up and down quickly ?

Not anymore! Now the screen dims correctly after some time of inactivity.

Hello,
I'm owner of Samsung NP-N150-JP01PL.
In my case after installing samsung-backlight and samsung-tools I use following sollution with success:

1. edit /etc/default/grub

sudo nano /etc/defautl/grub

2. change line from

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX ...

On the NF210, this just removes the functionality of the brightness buttons. In other words, without the line it would at least bring up the dialog. It now takes no action.

If your blue buttons are going crazy, did you edit the files to put the polling for your netbook?

http://ubuntuforums.org ...

In fact, writing in /sys/class/backlight/samsung/brightness works in a console (outside X), it's only under X that something seems to force the brightness to either 0 or 7, nothing between!

With the kernel 2.6.35-24.43~ppa1~loms~maverick and samsung-backlight 0.13.3~ppa1~loms~maverick on Xubuntu 10.10, on my Samsung NF310, I cannot set the brightness step by step, only the min or max brightness, with the keyboard or writing in /sys/class/backlight/samsung/brightness.
When I read from ...