Well done! Your test kernel fixes the flickering issue on my Samsung NC10.
dmesg | grep samsung
[ 21.242126] samsung_laptop: Backlight controlled by ACPI video driver
Looking at the above dmesg and the patch f34cd9c, it seems that the samsung_laptop module and the ACPI were both trying to control the backlight on my system...
Well done! Your test kernel fixes the flickering issue on my Samsung NC10.
dmesg | grep samsung
[ 21.242126] samsung_laptop: Backlight controlled by ACPI video driver
Looking at the above dmesg and the patch f34cd9c, it seems that the samsung_laptop module and the ACPI were both trying to control the backlight on my system...