samsung-x360 team mailing list archive

[Albert Vilella <avilella@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are reported ways to upgrade the BIOS using Linux. See for example:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=318789

2009/11/2 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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