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["Fco. Javier Rubio" <fjrubio@xxxxxxxxx>]

I do not know if the BIOS update solves the backlight problem, because it
seems the BIOS update can only via installed from Window,s and I have only
Ubuntu in my system. :(

The command for the kernel to have the backlight working is i915.modeset=0

2009/11/2 Сергей Кобельков <sergeyko81@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi,
> it seems, there is BIOS update on Samsung site for our laptops. Maybe
> somebody has tested it already?
> I've tried Karmic, and the magic command
> xrandr --output LVDS --set BACKLIGHT_CONTROL legacy
> does not work by default to me. As a solution, they suggest to turn
> off kernel mode switching.
> I think, it is related with broken ACPI tables, which could be fixed
> by BIOS updates.
>
> Regards
> Sergey
>
>
> 2009/11/2 Fco. Javier Rubio <fjrubio@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > I have also upgraded to the Final release of Karmic.
> > I have found TWO bugs.
> > One minor one related to the AWN-manager (the MAC os like icon dock)
> easily
> > solveable.
> > And the other one is the backlight problem. I have passed (thanks to
> George
> > IIRC) the parameter to the kernel to ignore the driver for the i915 and I
> > can handle the backlight with xbacklight and the gnome-panel utility. Or
> is
> > that corrected n the Final version? (I had it when I installed the RC).
> > 2009/11/2 Paolo Milani <j.s.sebastian@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I just upgraded my x360 from ubuntu jaunty to karmic, turned compiz back
> >> on and it works great now ;-) I am turning on several fancy graphics
> >> effects and performance is still really snappy.
> >>
> >> Apparently the issues with intel graphics drivers in jaunty have been
> >> resolved in karmic.
> >>
> >> My installation is a 32-bit version, and I was using the kernel server
> >> because it has PAE, so i could use all 4GB of ram. The upgrade
> >> apparently switched me to a something called a generic-pae kernel, which
> >> also works fine.
> >>
> >> No isssues so far, but i've hardly used it yet, so I'll report any
> >> issues if they come up.
> >>
> >> regards,
> >> Paolo
> >>
> >
> >
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