CyBWarrior

Rest of my adventures with my brand new Samsung R730 and the installation of Ubuntu. I reassure everybody: all worked perfectly! The only small issue I encountered was about the adjustment of the brightness with the FN key. The applet was correctly shown, but there was no effect.

After some researches, to fix the issue, I had to:

1. In the BIOS, set the brightness adjustment to « User » and not to « Auto » anymore.
2. Install the packages samsung-backlight, samsung-tools, nvidia-bl-dkms, after adding the repository ppa:voria/ppa. In order to do this:
   

   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:voria/ppa
   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
   sudo apt-get install samsung-backlight samsung-tools nvidia-bl-dkms

3. Change a line in the configuration of grub (as surprising as it sounds):
   

   gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

   The line to update (the modification is in bold) :

   GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= »quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor« 

   Then :

   sudo update-grub

4. A reboot and now it should works!

Each time a new file is added in a device, the Android operating system seems to index it to the new media library. This feature is very interesting, because it allows to retrieve automatically all photos, movies and songs. However, some cases exist that we don’t want these added files to be indexed.

To avoid this, it’s very easy: all you have to do is to add in the folder which contains the file(s) (or sub-directories) a simple (empty) file named:

.nomedia

Easy and effective!

Something absolutely useless but which could be however sometimes useful…

How comment/uncomment two bit of code in one time, in order to make tests, with // and /* */ comments.

And to switch:

Really impresive, isn’t it?