NB30 and 11.04, report
Posted: 06 May 2011, 13:48
Just installed 11.04 on my NB30.
I have somewhat inconsistent behaviour. Wireless seems to work out of the box (without the Voria PPA). Touchscreen works positionally but can't simulate mouse click. Backlight brightness is uncontrollable -- if you are running on power when booting, the screen stays bright, if you are running on battery is stays (unreadably) dark.
Installing samsung-backlight (only) solves the backlight problem. However, running an update
after adding the ppa (which loads the custom kernel) broke it again (!?), as well as producing what appears to be a less reliable wireless connection. The touchscreen worked afterwards though.
So, all a little frustrating. The backlight is critical issue for me -- obviously a laptop is not very usable without a visible screen, then the wireless, with the touchscreen as a "nice to have but...."
Sorry this is not the clearest of reports. It's hard to reproduce this stuff reliably -- once the kernel update has happened from the PPA, I haven't worked out how to go backward to a clean system other than by reinstalling (which natty does make easy these days, preserving all my user files).
Phil
I have somewhat inconsistent behaviour. Wireless seems to work out of the box (without the Voria PPA). Touchscreen works positionally but can't simulate mouse click. Backlight brightness is uncontrollable -- if you are running on power when booting, the screen stays bright, if you are running on battery is stays (unreadably) dark.
Installing samsung-backlight (only) solves the backlight problem. However, running an update
after adding the ppa (which loads the custom kernel) broke it again (!?), as well as producing what appears to be a less reliable wireless connection. The touchscreen worked afterwards though.
So, all a little frustrating. The backlight is critical issue for me -- obviously a laptop is not very usable without a visible screen, then the wireless, with the touchscreen as a "nice to have but...."
Sorry this is not the clearest of reports. It's hard to reproduce this stuff reliably -- once the kernel update has happened from the PPA, I haven't worked out how to go backward to a clean system other than by reinstalling (which natty does make easy these days, preserving all my user files).
Phil