Samsung N220 UNR 9.10 Brightness Control Not Working

[tariqkhokhar]

Hi All,

First post here - really pleased to have found this resource.

I've got a new Samsung N220, installed UNR 9.10 on it - everything I've tested is working now apart from the backlight.

More specifically, the key combination of Fn + UP or DOWN does not make the screen brighter or dimmer.

I've added the voria-ppa-karmic repository and installed what I think are the right samung packages:

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tariq@tk220:~$ sudo aptitude search samsung
i   samsung-backlight                         - Backlight support for the latest kernel on Samsung n
i A samsung-backlight-2.6.31-19               - Backlight support for Samsung netbooks              
i   samsung-scripts                           - Scripts for Samsung netbooks                        

and as some other people have asked for similar queries, here is the output of:

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tariq@tk220:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Pineview DMI Bridge [8086:a010]
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011]
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Pineview Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a012]
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:27d4] (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Tigerpoint LPC Controller [8086:27bc] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller [8086:27c1] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8192] (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [11ab:4354]
0b:00.0 Multimedia controller [0480]: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:1615]

and

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tariq@tk220:~$ sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name
N220                       

Happy to provide any further information - any advice on how to get it working would be appreciated!

Thanks,

[voria]

New packages on the repository. Changelogs:

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samsung-backlight (2.6.31-19~ppa7~loms~karmic) karmic; urgency=low

  * Add support for Samsung N220.

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linux (2.6.31-19.57~ppa7~loms~karmic) karmic; urgency=low
  ...
  * Fix FN keys release on following samsung models:
    N120, N130, N140, N150/N210/N220, N220, N310, N510, Q310, X120.
  * Apply 'libata-ata_piix-clear-spurious-IRQ.patch' to fix the
    SATA freezing problem on Samsung N130/N140.
  * Apply 'linux-phc-0.3.2.patch'.

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udev (147~-6.2~ppa11~loms~karmic) karmic; urgency=low

  * Add Samsung N220 support to '95-keymap.rules'.

They will be available for installation in a few hours.