Linux On My Samsung

On laptops supporting this feature, you can do it with the following (as root):


# enable battery life extender
echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/samsung/battery_life_extender

# disable battery life extender
echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/samsung/battery_life_extender


If you don't have this file ...

Hello,

i have a problem: the brightness starts flickering as soon as the brightness-level gets adjusted automatically or manually. It is basically jumping between the diffrent brightness levels all the time.
I managed in 11.04 by pressing fn+ volume up/down, then it stopped.
Now i naively upgraded ...

Did anyone have any success with keyboard backlit on Samsung series 9 (90X3A) laptops?

Right now, when pressing Fn + F7, dmesg shows this:

atkbd serio0: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x97 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd serio0: Use 'setkeycodes e017 <keycode>' to make it known.



When ...