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Samsung R580, Ubuntu 10.04 and Brightness control
- 1 Aug 2010
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For unknown (anyway, for my side) reason, the NVIDIA driver is not well configured after installation on the Samsung R580. In fact, brightness control does not work, with Fn+Keys or using the brightness applet, telling back to you that "Brightness status can not be read in Bios side".

So, in only one line, the issue can be solved: just edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add the following line (the bold one) into the Device section:

Section "Device"

  Identifier "Default Device"

  Driver "nvidia"

  Option "NoLogo" "True"

  Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"

EndSection

And that's it ! Brightness control with Fn+keys is working great.

thanks to this forum entry (end of page) : http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1357776.html

Have fun !

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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on my Samsung R580
- 12 Jun 2010
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I have just received my new laptop, and have already installed Ubuntu as my default OS. Only one thing remain unreachable, the Brigthness control :(

But, thanks to the voria (https://launchpad.net/~voria/+archive/ppa) PPA , I am able to use, network, Wifi, and all other features as suspend, hibernate and so on.

Ubuntu needed cheat sheet for this PPA:
- deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/voria/ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main
- deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/voria/ppa/ubuntu YOUR_UBUNTU_VERSION_HERE main
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Ubuntu 10.04: a social edition
- 4 May 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 bring a lot of interesting features on social side, twitter, facebook, and so on. But...

The new Look of the gnome interface contains a strange choice about User interface: The window buttons side !

Left side for window size and action management is, IMHO, a wrong choice.

Right side is what human kind is usefull with.

So to bring back old uses :

Start gconf-editor, and go to the apps/metacity/general configuration to edit the button_layout key, and set:

menu:maximize,minimize,close

(full story and guide here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13535/move-window-buttons-back-to-the-right-in-ubuntu-10.04/).

and get your window with the right side ;)
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