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Re: Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?!

From Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz>
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops
Subject Re: Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?!
Date 2012-10-20 12:57 +1300
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          Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

> Anyone here replaced Windows with Linux on the Samsung NC110 netbook?
> 
> I'm having 2 problems:
> 
>   (1) The 'Fn+' controls (e.g. external monitor, WiFi on/off) appear to
> be dependent on Windows apps.
>     Anyone found a Linux with equivalent function?
> 
>    (2) Have been unable to connect an external monitor and get the
> NC110 to display on it.
>          (Compared with my Toshiba laptop, whose BIOS seems to detect
>            the external monitor and immediately switches to it.)
> 
> (Been running Mageia-2, now trying Mageia-3-Alpha2.)
> 
> Looking at it from a different point of view, has anyone here found a
> netbook that has neither of the above problems when running Linux only?!

Are you aware of the samsung-tools?

http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/296

Ron

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Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?! Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2012-10-19 16:23 +0100
  Re: Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?! Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-10-20 12:57 +1300
    Re: Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?! Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2012-10-20 13:08 +0100
      Re: Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?! Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-10-21 08:55 +1300
    Re: Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?! Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2012-10-21 12:49 +0100
    Re: Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?! Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2012-10-21 16:28 +0100
    Re: Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?! Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2012-10-21 16:50 +0100
      Re: Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?! Ron <beeb@woosh.co.nz> - 2012-10-22 10:14 +1300
  Re: Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?! Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org> - 2012-10-20 13:15 +0100

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