For me, the switch to windows is not an option, but I understand that. Ohh Well, I just sent an email to samsung US support alerting them to these issues, It's really a pitty that linux is having this kind of problems with this incredible laptop.
Hopefully I was not the only one and samsung will take care of this. What I recommend to you is that, like me, try to alert samsung support, they already have linux kernel developers and with enough "emails" maybe they will look to us, even not being legally obligated to. I sent an email to 'webhelp...@digitalriver.com' (I know...but at least maybe US samsung support is better than the one in my country). It's really a pitty, otherwise ubuntu flies and shines running in this beautiful machine and I really need ubuntu for my work. Even with this annoying bug I will continue to use it. By the way, I'm also looking closely at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44161 and no luck at the moment. It seams that it is an ACPI firmware bug, and if so, we can only hope that samsung will take care of it. On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 21:59 +0000, alistair wrote: > On 21/10/12 22:31, Jose Padilla wrote: > > On a 900x3c with Ubuntu 12.10 lid appears always as open and battery > > indicator doesn't pick up battery changes. I have to go through > > suspend/resume in order to get the indicator refreshed. As you can see > > in my case manual suspend/resume works ok. However, my laptop is 1 week > > old and after only 3 or 4 charge cycles my battery now reports 99.3% > > when it is fully charged. > > > > kernel version: 3.5.0-17-generic (64 bits) > > ubuntu version 12.10 > > > Sorry to say, I have given up! I deleted the Linux partition, given its > space back to NTFS, and reinstalled the Windows bootloader. > > This is completely silly. It takes me back many years to the time of > kernel 2.2 and it was a struggle to get things to work. Nowadays, it is > normally far easier to install a modern distro than it is to install > Windows. I do not know what has gone wrong here. > > A while ago, Windows was terrible - BSODs and non-existent security. > Now, Win 7 is actually quite good, so the main reason to struggle to > install Linux has gone away. I also do a lot of remote admin of > servers, but again, the presence of Cygwin and it X server means I can > now do this on a Win 7 machine, almost as easily as I can from a Linux > machine. The rest of the time, I use LibreOffice to earn money, watch > programmes on MythTV to relax, read mail using Thunderbird and browse > the web using Chrome or Firefox: all of which work well on either platform. > > I would not dream of moving my critical servers from SUSE, but the > Samsung laptop works just fine with Win7, and it does all I want it to, > so with that OS it will stay, for the time being. > > Sorry, but that is how it is. > > A > -- > Alistair Hamilton > Ty Eurgain, Cefn Eurgain Lane, Rhosesmor, Nr. Mold, Flintshire CH7 6PG > Tel: 01352 840891 - Fax: 08704 581641 - Skype: PATENTABLE > alist...@eurgain.co.uk > ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986724 Title: Lid state changes not detected on Samsung NP900X3B To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/986724/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
