I think there is also some other under the hood improvements, as well, but I haven’t fully parsed that. By installing the tools offered in this repo, all the various function keys necessary for brightness, volume and other options control mostly seem to work. The second breakthrough was finding the Linux on my Samsung project, aka Voria. This driver can be easily installed through the System Settings -> Additional Drivers menu. However, once I realized that by using the proprietary driver that the fan noise would stop, and my battery life would double, it was an easy choice to make. While I am used to this with MBP’s and the NVidia driver, and I had hoped not to have to use the proprietary driver with my new laptop. What I had to do was install the proprietary ATI/AMD graphics driver, instead of using the open-source video driver that is default in Ubuntu now. The estimate was only two hours, which was not good enough for my needs. The fan noise was an indicator the processor was too hot, which also meant the battery life was not going to be so great. The big two breakthroughs to really making this hardware hum were though were finding a way to enable the custom Samsung function keys and to stop the endless fan noise from whining away. I have had some success with Ubuntu 12 on mine, and blogged about it here:
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