Bug#561241: linux-2.6: control the backlight on a number of Samsung laptops

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:58:27PM +0100, Chris wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Severity: normal
> 
> There seems to be a problem with controlling the backlight on a number of Samsung laptops. A driver to solve this is available here:
> 
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/63209/
> 
> ---help---
> This driver adds support to control the backlight on a number of
> Samsung laptops, like the N130, and control for some of the LEDs
> ---------

This driver hasn't been merged into the standard kernel yet, which is a
prerequisite of a backport to the Squeeze kernel.

Cheers,
        Moritz