Comments on: Fedora 11 on a Samsung N140

By: slouchfuzz

slouchfuzz — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:34:41 +0000

Just an FYI — Samsung released an updated BIOS for the N140 a couple of days ago. Just did the update for my N130 and so far no issues except I had a password set via the BIOS locking it at startup that I did have to re-do.

By: will

will — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:05 +0000

Thanks for that link – it’s an interesting article.

By: slouchfuzz

slouchfuzz — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:23:11 +0000

Ran across this site with some interesting power optimizing tips for Linux on netbooks:
http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/make-your-linux-netbook-battery-last-longer-661874

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:46:04 +0000

Just like to say thanks to you all, have been reading above about N140, I bought mine with XP, but installed 7 the other day, and the Function keys not working, the Brightness is my main concearn, but thanks to you guys… problem solved… cheers

By: will

will — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 05:56:03 +0000

I can’t remember where i saw it now, but i think it was the Samsung site. However, they seem to have scrapped the Linux option now!

By: keith rennie

keith rennie — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:58:44 +0000

WHERE can you get £20 off for windows free? failed so far to find it anywhere, and I hate paying a tax for something I’ll never use.

By: will

will — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:14:10 +0000

I’m getting over 6 hours – but i always have the screen brightness on full, so i guess i could get longer if i had it on low.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:56:01 +0000

Just wondering, are you seeing those “about 9 hours” of battery life on Fedora?

By: will

will — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:20:29 +0000

Excellent! Thanks for that.

By: balpha

balpha — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:19:26 +0000

I just found http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samsung_N140 which offers a way to set the brightness using linux — and it works like a charm on my Fedora 11. With root privileges, call

setpci -s 00:02.1 F4.B=hh

replacing “hh” by a hexadecimal value from 00 (lamp off) to ff (full brightness). With some little scripting, it should be easy to bind brightness setting to appropriate keys. The archlinux wiki also gives some tips for making X react to the fn-ArrowUp/Down keys, but I haven’t checked into that yet.