[Bug 212800] Re: no brightness-control on samsung laptop

2008-11-03 Thread Nermal
>From what I've read it seems the Samsung bios ( > 09ST) is buggy and doesn't allow acpi to take over all the hotkeys correctly so the brightness keys still generate keycodes (repeatedly) and this seems to make X go weird (keyboard unresponsive, display sluggish). Downgrading the bios to 08ST (usi

[Bug 212800] Re: no brightness-control on samsung laptop

2008-10-30 Thread Nermal
Hi, I've just got an samsung Q45 UK model (NP-Q45A00A/SUK ) with the intel graphics. Under ubuntu 8.10RC I see the same thing Tobias sees if I blacklist the video module. If I leave it unblacklisted, the system freezes on boot. Also on boot I get told my pnp bios caused a fatal error - it recov