Video driver is not working in this Samsung any more

[Lynne Stevens]

Seems it is with a lot of Samsung Laptops vidoe goes blank about every 25 seonds if your not typing or moving the mouse or hitting enter .. .
Since about the last few up dates and what ever it did in 3.5 upgrade left out the video drivers for a LOT of Samsung Laptops
and the i915 is the wrong driver to use for this thing something to do with Euie boot or so the report was
Did Samsung fix it or is 13.04 going to fix it ? as I have the latest BIOS

[Oskar Wallgren (oskar.wallgren)]

For the screen blanking issue I think you need to check your screensaver/power settings.
Sometimes when you update a packege it will also prompt you if you want to keep old settings or go for the new defaults. I think you hit 'y' on one of those occasions.

See if this link is of any help:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/207131/screensaver-blanking-problem

[Lynne Stevens (jackie40d)]

I have now been to Samsung web site and did a 40 minute chat and they say that the video driver is not in Linux and ask about the FEUI or if they knoew about it . . Got we dont know aything about it . . Now using Ubuntu 13.04 and still have same problem

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Lynne Stevens, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Raring reached EOL on January 27, 2014.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Is this an issue in a supported release? If so, could you please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 1167372

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]