Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?!

From	Maurice Batey <maurice@nomail.afraid.org>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.laptops
Subject	Samsung NC110 netbook: Any Linux users?!
Date	2012-10-19 16:23 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<pan.2012.10.19.15.23.43.972779@nomail.afraid.org> (permalink)

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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?!
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/\/\aurice
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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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