I've found this workaround for the Samsung n210 netbook: 1. Add this to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line in /etc/default/grub: "quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor intel_idle.max_cstate=0" 2. update-grub 3. update-initramfs -u
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