Arch on Samsung NC10 ?

brendan · 2009-06-10 00:36:59

cheers, found and installed, now the power button still doesnt do what I want, but i got everything else the way i like it.

my64 · 2009-06-13 10:50:12

Hi everybody,
I am now an happy owner of a NC10 also. I installed Arch on it and it works like a charm. There is no need for Xorg.conf file, with last version of X, video and screen are automagically recognized. Only my french keyboard and the touchpad has to be configured through "/etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi and 11-x11-synaptics.fdi" where I changed the line regarding touchpad to:

   <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">

For the poweroff button, it can be remapped in the file "/etc/acpi/handler.sh". If you don't have this file, you'll need to install acpi package. Check the wiki. I remaped it to "pm-hibernate" so the NC10 quickly shutdown and restart.

Did someone succeed to configure the camera ?
Olivier

brendan · 2009-06-13 11:12:27

camera is easy it just needs the uvcvideo driver.

Works like a charm.

For the power button i want it to come up with XFCE's logout menu when you press it. I guess I would need to know what command xfce runs in order to have that popup screen appear.

nonickknown · 2009-06-13 11:36:49

i have big problems to get umts/3g running but my biggest problem is that the wireless lan is incredible slow and often loose its connection. Does anyone got the same problems? i read the forums and wiki's since many weeks. But every solution mentioned there doesn't work for me.
which wireless lan driver are you running and which networkmanager?
the only chance to get wireless run for me is to use ndiswrapper with the xp driver. But powertop showed me that the cpu is wakeup 16000 times -.-

i hope my english isn't too bad. please help me

brendan · 2009-06-13 11:51:02

I just use ath5k and running networkmanager (from redhat).

It works really well for me, I was able to get a signal similar to what is available on my nokia n82.
What kernel version are you running? have you tried the madwifi drivers?

nonickknown · 2009-06-13 12:20:34

i've tried the ath5k and madwifi driver.... and some aur driver. but the only one that is working is the ath5k but its realy slow and loose connection.
i've just installed the nwm-applet instead of wicd but nothing changes.
i am running the current normal arch kernel.

Barghest · 2009-06-13 14:37:10

Hi,

do you know what kernel modul is loaded for the sd-card reader?

brendan · 2009-06-13 16:07:40

nonickknown wrote:

i've tried the ath5k and madwifi driver.... and some aur driver. but the only one that is working is the ath5k but its realy slow and loose connection.
i've just installed the nwm-applet instead of wicd but nothing changes.
i am running the current normal arch kernel.

maybe its a regression in 2.6.30? Who uses it? I'm still on 2.6.29.

Don't know what module is used for the SD reader, but i wouldnt mind knowing either.

Just to make sure you do have ath_hal ath_pci wlan all blacklisted right?

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nonickknown · 2009-06-13 17:48:09

brendan wrote:

maybe its a regression in 2.6.30? Who uses it? I'm still on 2.6.29.

i am on 2.6.29 too ... its the current arch kernel?! 30 is in testing i think.

brendan wrote:

Just to make sure you do have ath_hal ath_pci wlan all blacklisted right?

Do i have to blacklist them all? if i do this i've got no wlan -.-

brendan · 2009-06-13 20:56:22

nonickknown wrote:

brendan wrote:
maybe its a regression in 2.6.30? Who uses it? I'm still on 2.6.29.
i am on 2.6.29 too ... its the current arch kernel?! 30 is in testing i think.
brendan wrote:
Just to make sure you do have ath_hal ath_pci wlan all blacklisted right?
Do i have to blacklist them all? if i do this i've got no wlan -.-

On the wiki it explains you should blacklist them all. ath5k module is what provides you with wlan capabilities.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samsung_NC10

My bad i didn't realise kernel 2.6.30 was not the current kernel. I'm still a little confused by the arch strategy.

nonickknown · 2009-06-14 09:29:37

brendan wrote:

On the wiki it explains you should blacklist them all. ath5k module is what provides you with wlan capabilities.

yes. i#ve blacklisted all other modules except for ath5k... sorry i missunderstand you.

IdoMcFly · 2009-06-25 17:13:07

Did someone tried 2.6.30? some people have kernel panic on wind 100 but I can't find any feedback from nc10 user

john_schaf · 2009-06-25 18:18:50

I tried 2.6.30 yesterday. I found that the webcam stopped working in Skype, so I switched back to 2.6.29 where everything is nearly perfect !

IdoMcFly · 2009-06-25 21:15:09

so we have to set IgnorePkg kernel26 and kernel26-firmware ?

kYd · 2009-06-25 23:48:10

I compiled 2.6.30 about two weeks ago and it worked great; except from the sound but I didn't really look into it as I was just testing, but it's is probably an easy fix.

The boot time seemed to reduce by around 5 seconds with the fast-boot.

john_schaf · 2009-06-26 08:30:45

Did you try to use the webcam ?

kYd · 2009-06-26 13:28:33

john_schaf wrote:

Did you try to use the webcam ?

Yes it works fine

my64 · 2009-06-30 08:05:05

@kYD,
Can you tell what application you use for webcam ?
It does *not* work for me on 2.6.30, either with xawtv or vlc.

kYd · 2009-06-30 13:28:02

I tried xawtv and it didn't work for me in that, can't comment on whether it works in previous kernel versions.

However it works just fine in aMSN, I can have a video conference no problem.

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john_schaf · 2009-06-30 13:38:38

I filed a bug : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15319
and also : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13682

But what you report (aMSN working) is really strange. What about Skype ?

kYd · 2009-06-30 13:59:12

Ah. Well I've just downloaded and signed up for Skype and I can confirm that, No it does not work.

I tried to preview my camera in the settings but I just recieve a blank (white) box, no camera output what so ever.
I'm baffled as to why it works fine in aMSN but not any other program.

papierschiff · 2009-06-30 16:27:25

the webcam works for me in kopete, but not in skype

nonickknown · 2009-07-20 21:55:00

does anyone know how to set the nc10 in suspend-mode by closing the lid?
suspending works with acpid and fn+esc but i cant figure out how to get it work by closing the lid. acpi_listen doesn't get an event.

brendan · 2009-07-20 23:02:47

In xfces gui you can set it really easily. I dont know anymore than that though.

Incidentally i've noticed since the alsa upgrade that the samsungs noise output from the speakers is far greater than before. Anyone else noticed that? its a nice change cause for a few months i'm using it as my film watchign with mates box and it was a little quiet.

Barghest · 2009-08-13 19:29:00

Did anyone manage to adjust the backlight brightness depending on the the AC status?

I'd like to have the maximum brightness when on AC and a lower one when on battery.

In laptop mode tools there is a filed called lcd-brightness.conf. The problem is that neither a /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD/brightness nor a sys/class/backlight/.../brightness as stated in this file. So it seems laptop mode tools isn't an option?

Is there another way?

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