SAMSUNG & UBUNTU PLAY VERY NICELY THANKS TO USER EFFORT

By , Published September 2, 2010

Seeking out a new laptop or notebook but dreading the all-too-frequent compatibility issue with function keys, blue tooth, wifi, webcam etc?

OMG! reader Mateusz JagieÅ‚Å‚o was in that position as he searched out information on his chosen Samsung R580 laptop – that was until he discovered a thriving community of Samsung device users with it’s own dedicated PPA & application tool ready with the necessary fixes.

The tool in question deals with all of the usual ‘troublesome features’ hardware can cause under Linux – Bluetooth, Wifi, webcam, function keys, Sleep, Hibernation, control of the CPU fan and much more. More-so, it does not only for use with R580 models but for all Samsung netbooks and notebook machines.

Mateusz went on to share:

“In addition to the Samsung Tools program, in the repository are also available kernels adapted to the specific models, drivers unsupported by default in Ubuntu (some Realtek chips) and an “emergency package ” to the screen’s backlight, which is used when the same Samsung-tools by itself fails to make it work properly.”

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You’ll find the PPA nestled over @ launchpad.net/~Voria/archive/ppa and more information on the Voira forum.

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_D64M4375EYMO26HCJP5RVY2KDM Eric

    Now if only we can get some love for the Acer Aspire 250h.
    I’ve had one for over six months, and there’s no driver support for the SD card reader.

  • http://twitter.com/Butter2Go Butter2Go

    replacement icons for samsung tools (if added to panel)
    http://i48.tinypic.com/o93lls.png
    http://i45.tinypic.com/2n19dax.png

    remane the pic “samsung-tools.png” replace it with the one in “/usr/lib/samsung-tools/gui/icons”

    PS: the voria ppa works with an n510 very well, too

  • http://www.expatsinksa.com/ Bilal Akhtar

    Why does this post have a title in caps? WHEN DID JOEY BEGIN SCREAMING?

    • Anonymous

      u noticed that ?

      This blog is screaming dude, i barely ever notice caps anymore

  • f.zweig

    Unfortunately, there a spaces around each “/” in your ppa link and the “http://” is missing, so the link doesn’t work. :)

  • ActionpackedPIVII

    Awesome mate :D I’ve got the R580 and this is just great :D

  • fresh

    awesome!

  • http://wakoopa.com/yo2boy yo2boy

    Hasn’t it always been like this?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_UQ6CXMPYAR3CIWLGQJAI2MZEKQ YestinH

    Toshiba, too.

  • http://twitter.com/valbaca88 Valentin Baca

    Very cool and true to the spirit of free software: have an itch? fix it!
    In a similar vein, thinkwiki.org used to be awesome for thinkpads+linux but hasn’t had much contribution or traffic lately.
    There should be more projects like this. I hate having to tell people “well, linux *may* not work with your new laptop because…it’s…um….new”

  • Donny Rodrigues

    yo links don’t work..

  • new_albany_nerd

    while this is awesome, my MSI Wind U230 only needed a wifi driver (already a .deb!) that wasn’t in the default repositories.

  • Anonymous

    I found this PPA for my samsung n220 and it helped a ton. Without it theres no way to control the backlight in linux and the F keys wont work.

    Voria does great work.

  • dr_w

    Would it not be more accurate to say ‘Samsung and Linux MADE/Forced/Fixed to play nicely due to user effort.’ One has to wonder why the user effort is even needed when so many other laptops play nicely out of the box.

  • http://www.naturalbirthandbabycare.com Kristen

    I found this resource when I got my Sammy netbook. Worked like a treat and the developer is very active. It’s great!

  • Anonymous

    Sweet- now I know I have another surefire choice when I look for a new laptop.

  • http://netroy.in NetRoY

    the link should be
    https://launchpad.net/~voria/+archive/ppa
    (+) is missing

  • http://netroy.in NetRoY

    kinda true..but efforts like these create patches for next releases..
    i had to use voria’s ppa on lucid, but on maverick everything has been working “out-of-the-box” since pre-alpha days

  • http://ghetto.k2city.eu Matej MoÅ¡ko

    Is there something similar for MSI? My suspend functioned just in intrepid, as far as I remember.

  • Anonymous

    This blog is screaming, “dude!”

    FTFY

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  • http://kernel.net Link

    This is an awesome example of what opensource software and communities can do. I’m really happy to see such a great result.

    It would have been nice if something like this existed for Sony when I bought my fz-21.Configuring it and getting everything to work has been such a pain…

    Anyways after this post, Samsung FTW

  • http://www.voria.org voRia

    It’s so nice to read such positive comments.
    Glad to know my work is useful and appreciated. :)

  • http://www.facebook.com/merkourio Mark P. Merk

    WOW. I just bought an r580 and was desparate to do all the workarounds to make it fully usable..
    So glad you posted this :D
    Thanks again all you OMGubuntuers for the fantastic work :D

 
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