From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Samsung 90X3A Fn Keys
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:12:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111018141232.GA17101@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAD6YvxT8M6mR-2HuoetQ9BnowJgVSG2YXBRFhg-t1dAoR9TAyA@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 09:41:17AM +0200, Victor Engmark wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Victor Engmark
> <victor.engmark@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >> Victor Engmark [2011-10-17 20:55 +0200]:
> >>> > Are you using the proper kernel driver for this laptop (samsung-laptop)
> >>> > that provides the ability to change the backlight levels?
> >>> >
> >>> > If not, the keys themselves are not going to do anything on their own,
> >>> > sorry.
> >>>
> >>> Is there an Ubuntu package for this?
> >>
> >> No need for a package, that module just comes with the standard
> >> kernel. It should autoload as it seems to have proper modaliases
> >> (dmi*:svn*SAMSUNG...). Doesn't it appear in "lsmod | grep samsung"?
> >
> > Nope, nothing there. For reference, I'm running Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit
> > (and was running 11.04 a week ago, with the same problem).
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux lup0 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:18:14 UTC
> > 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> Correction: Running Ubuntu 11.04 still (won't upgrade to the POS that
> 11.10 is after trying it on the desktop).
Then there's no way your brightness will work, unless your laptop
happens to use ACPI for brightness.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-18 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-17 4:10 Samsung 90X3A Fn Keys Ian Coleman
2011-10-17 18:00 ` Greg KH
2011-10-17 18:55 ` Victor Engmark
2011-10-17 18:59 ` Greg KH
2011-10-18 4:41 ` Martin Pitt
2011-10-18 4:48 ` Martin Pitt
2011-10-18 7:26 ` Victor Engmark
2011-10-18 7:41 ` Victor Engmark
2011-10-18 7:48 ` Ian Coleman
2011-10-18 14:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-10-24 17:20 ` Tomasz Chmielewski
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