Comments for Ubuntu on the Samsung NC10

Comment on Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix – Karmic Koala by yohann

yohann — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:03:52 +0000

i just installed the new BIOS version (Win_NC10_11CA07D0) from the samsung website, and it solved the brightness ajusting buttons problem.

Comment on Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix – Karmic Koala by Workaround 1 « Ubuntu on the Samsung NC10

Workaround 1 « Ubuntu on the Samsung NC10 — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:44:12 +0000

[...] See latest blog post for 9.10 http://nc10ubuntu.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/ubuntu-9-10-netbook-remix-karmic-koala/ [...]

Comment on Time to upgrade? by jb

jb — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:06:51 +0000

I’m pretty sure that I also have a 6 cell battery – I’m very surprised that you are getting 10 hours!

Comment on Time to upgrade? by svenmeier

svenmeier — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:05:52 +0000

My NC10 is 10 months old and with Ubuntu I get around 3.5 hours. It seems Linux is draining the battery faster than Windows .

Comment on Time to upgrade? by Iain

Iain — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:30:16 +0000

I got around 7 hours on XP and around 10 on Ubuntu 9.04 nbr
cheaper nc10 have a 3 cell battery, 6 cell is standard (mine) and 9 cells are avalable

Comment on Time to upgrade? by jb

jb — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:19:39 +0000

I get around 2 hours when using Ubuntu (heavy use) and about 4 hours when using XP (heavy use) – although my battery is a year old now (down to 82% capacity)

Comment on Time to upgrade? by Nick B

Nick B — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:02:34 +0000

Is it the Ubuntu part that brings down the battery life? My parents bought an NC10 recently (didn’t ask me for advice) which is on Windows. I switched on and it was quoting 7.5 hrs … I get nothing like that on my Ubuntu NC10.

(Perhaps a different battery pack? However, they will have bought as standard).

Thanks

Comment on Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) 9.04 is an improvement by Kieran

Kieran — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:21:42 +0000

Looks like these guys have sussed it.

http://blog.kiranpal.net/?p=58

Turn off AutoBrightness in BIOS, restart and Fn+Up on the Grub screen.
Worked for me, though the other remarks on above blog are less than favourable to Ubuntu on NC10.

Another thing, ditch RhythmBox and download Banshee, it’s much better for MP3 and you don’t get clicks and jitters on playback.
+ Reset the fonts to 9 and get rid of the horrible brown for the “Clear” style, looks much better on small screen.

UNR is nice but I’ve gone back to basic desktop.

Comment on Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) 9.04 is an improvement by Kieran

Kieran — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 15:27:34 +0000

Hi
Anyone have any issues with screen brightness?
I just put the latest NBRemix distro on today and it looks cool.

After doing the gardening I thought I pop a well deserved beer and sit out in the back garden and play with my new distro.

Couldn’t see a darn thing. Tried the brightness applet but thats not much use. Typing this now back on XP .

On XP on full brightness you can clearly see the text on this blog, on NBR all I can make out is a black smudge!.

Any help appreciated, as I use my NC10 on the move most of the time and the NBR desktop look brilliant on AC.

Kieran

Comment on Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) 9.04 is an improvement by Iain

Iain — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:29:22 +0000

I have a nc10 which came with xp, as soon as i could i installed ubuntu 9.04NBR… the following things work…
CPU / memory / HDD etc – perfect
USB 1/2 – perfect
touchpad – perfect (had to turn sensitivity down)
keyboard – perfect
fn keys – perfect
screen – perfect (had to turn off auto brightness in BIOS)
standby – perfect
webcam – better than windows (less grainy)
all ubuntu 9.04 inbuilt software – perfect
battery – normaly verry good but i like my fancy screen effects
bluetooth – perfect
wifi – perfect
LAN – perfect
inbuilt mic – perfect
speakers – perfect
headphone / mic jacks – perfect
vga out – perfect
sd card slot – perfect
3D acceleration – good
midi – having problems
i can also run the following programs fine…
google desktop
gimp
aMSN
Google Gadgets
qTorrent
Audacity
zynaddsub FX
Compiz manager
Wine – spotify,
if anyone has any problems with anything i mentioned works, your probably doing something wrong or you nc10 is faulty.
The nc10 and ubuntu 9.04NBR seem to be made for each other