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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
• R468/R418
• X320/X420/X520
• X360
• R518
• R510/P510

Not tested:

• X360
• R518
• R510/P510

Have a similar problem, but need more information to add it:

• 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.