Yes, this works for me in Debian (testing) and in Arch Linux when I was
using it briefly.

Does using the “eject” command work?

In fact, cd drive was not in fstab. So now, cd can be mounted in /media/cd. The last problem is that KDE4.3.3 doesn’t mounted it automatically. But it’s better.

Did you manage to eject a cd with Fn+Inser?

1) Check under /media rather than /mnt as this is where most modern Linux distros mount their CDs

2) Check the output of `dmesg’ and see if the kernel detects the CD.

Otherwise, I’m not sure what to suggest – I haven’t had any problems with the CD drive yet.

Did you have a problem with your DVD drive?

I’m using Chakra linux (liveCD based on Arch). I put a CD in it but nothing happened.

mount doesn’t show any /mnt/cdrom or something else, and Fn+inser doesn’t eject the cd!

It’s difficult to give more in-depth instructions because building a kernel is very distro-specific. It basically boils down to following your distro’s instructions to acquire the source code, cd-ing to the source directory, and running:

patch -p0 < samsung-q320-atkbd.patch

And then following the distro’s instructions to actually build and install the kernel.

Unfortunately, this patch will probably only work with the exact kernel version I wrote it for (2.6.30).

If you don’t already feel comfortable building a custom kernel, I wouldn’t advise trying to build one with this patch.

However, having fn-key support is not absolutely vital: you can still change the brightness manually with the “nvclock” command (on Debian/Ubuntu this is in a package called “nvclock”).

So, for example, to set the brightness to 50% you can exectute:

nvclock -S 50

In fact, even with this fn-key patch, the brightness keys still will not work correctly because HAL cannot set the brightness on nvidia graphics cards (you have to hack it to use nvclock, see my earlier post).

This is all a bit irritating, and it would be nicer if everything worked out of the box: unfortunately Nvidia/Samsung don’t seem to want to stick to standards…

Hope some of this helps!

Thanks for the great work but unfortunately I’m not able to use your patch and recompile the kernel. (I have read a lot of HowTo but my “results” are miserable to say the least).

Would you be so kind to post a “guide” a little bit more elementary for clumsy people like me who own the Samsung Q320, please?

PS
I read you’re relocating and so on and so forth and therefore quite busy but (please) I’m in such dire straits as I had to go back to microsof… blah.. so sad!

Sorry for being so outspoken (nasty) and good luck for your new job and life by the way!!

Cheers
Matt