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Welcome to the samsung-backlight wiki!

samsung-backlight is a fork of samsung-backlight linux kernel driver. It add backlight support for some of samsung laptops.

Samsung laptop models

Currently supported:

• N130
• NC10
• NP-Q45
• R410 plus
• R468/R418
• X320/X420/X520
• X360
• R518
• R510/P510
• NF110/NF210/NF310

Not tested:

• X360
• R518
• R510/P510

Have a similar problem, but need more information to add it (if you are owner of these laptops, please add an issue):

• X418
• Q1

Installation

git clone https://[email protected]/xonatius/samsung-backlight.git cd samsung-backlight make sudo make install

On some os you need to add samsung_backlight module to modules list. (f.e /etc/modules) After reboot it should work.

Other samsung laptop models

If you've got samsung laptop with intel graphics card and it hasn't supported backlight control, you could create an issue with "lspci -nn" and "dmidecode -s system-product-name " information.

Thanks

• Thanks nikobockerman for the information and patch for NF110/NF210/NF310 laptops.
• Thanks Alberto Mardegan for R410 laptops patch.