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I have been digging into this myself and have posted about it at http://bit.ly/1lPnTar - apologies for the url shortner but the real one contains the f word and was being mangled by the auto-censored...

Found a fix at this link

http://askubuntu.com/questions/167832/ubuntu-12-04-brightness-problem

1) Add the 'linux on my samsung repository'


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:voria/ppa

2)...

I also get this since updating my kernel to 3.2.0-27-generic. When I try to change the screen brightness with the keyboard buttons, the fan starts up almost immediately, although task manager shows...

Perfect, works for me. Totally hack but thanks a lot for looking into this. Hopefully the bug is fixed soon.

I changed the script to have some debug lines (and added some timing lines) and found that yes it was running, and there is still the delay when logging in.

I also tried manually stopping the...

I tried disabling all startup options (not just the ones I added) but no success.
I created a new user, and they log in just fine.

I have found another thread which is describing this same issue,...

Awesome instructions Orbital_sFear

I am also suffering this problem.
I tried your workaround from your first post, using tty1 and manually restarting accounts-daemon, which worked.

I also...

I logged out and there was a long delay at logout, and then I logged back in but still with the same long delay.

I have added three things to the autostart myself:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --left-of...

I have a problem where I log in and it takes about 30s from entering the password to having anything come up on the desktop. This only happened recently and happens every time I log in. I used to...

Thanks for the reply. I installed qtfonts but it was in the same unreadable font so also unusable.

I navigated to the Appearance settings (Settings > Settings Manager > Appearance) and the Fonts...

I'm wondering if anyone can help me with fixing the fonts in Kate running on XFCE. I updated to 12.04 today and Kate is displaying the menu fonts as symbols (see pic). If anyone can help me with how...

Some info about this at hotplug

http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg05148.html

I will look into this some more later.

I created a new keymap file using the following command


sudo nano /lib/udev/keymaps/samsung-90X3A

and put the following content in it


0x96 kbdillumup #Fn-F8
0x97 kbdillumdown #Fn-F7

I have install 11.10 Beta (64 bit) about a week ago.

It's better than 11.04 but still has the same bugs with the fn keys.

So far no kernel panics, I was getting kernel panics from Chrome in...

I own the Samsung 9 series and have been running Ubuntu on it since when I bought it in April. I have not owned or had experience with the macbook air.

I recommend looking at this thread regarding...

For those interested in the function keys, in particular the lack of function of the keyboard illumination keys, I have started a thread at

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10782038

I...

I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 32bit.

I have no response from the following function keys on my Samsung Series 9 laptop when I run the command

sudo /lib/udev/keymap -i input/event4

and by no...

b16a2smith, I had installed the additional drivers, with no success.

I have installed Kubuntu 10.1032bit and after running

sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source

my wireless...

I've spent a while messing around with Natty on the Samsung 9 Series and wanted to share my experiences here. I am focusing on Kubuntu 32bit 11.04 in this write-up.

I've tried a variety of...