UPDATE: Ubuntu 14.10 settings

Ubuntu 12.10 works pretty well out of the box (for me it was just power management and keybindings that needed work), see Ubuntu wiki if you have any other issues . Using powertop I was able to understand what needed doing. What follows are my settings:

/etc/rc.local

#!/bin/sh -e

# Temp disable ethernet port
modprobe -r r8169

# Disable wake up on lan if I do use ethernet port
ethtool -s eth2 wol d;

# Temp disable bluetooth
modprobe -r btusb

# Adjust backlight to start much lower
echo 11 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness

# - NMI Watchdog (turned off)
echo 0 > '/proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog';

# - SATA Active Link Powermanagement
echo 'min_power' > '/sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy';

# - USB Autosuspend (after 2 secs of inactivity)
for i in `find /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/control`; do echo auto > $i; done;
for i in `find /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/autosuspend`; do echo 2 > $i; done;

# - Device Power Management
echo auto | tee /sys/bus/i2c/devices/*/power/control > /dev/null;
echo auto | tee /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/power/control > /dev/null;

# - CPU Scaling (on demand scaling governor for all CPU's
for i in `find /sys/devices/system/cpu/*/cpufreq/scaling_governor`; do echo ondemand > $i; done;

exit 0

On the keybingings the only keys that didn’t work were some of the Fn Keys

/lib/udev/keymaps/samsung-other

0xCE prog1              # FN+F1 System Settings (NOT WORKING)
0x89 brightnessdown     # Fn+F2
0x88 brightnessup       # Fn+F3
0x82 switchvideomode    # Fn+F4 CRT/LCD (high keycode: "displaytoggle")
0xF7 f22                # Fn+F5 Touchpad on
0xF9 f23                # Fn+F5 Touchpad off
0x97 kbdillumdown	# FN+F9 Keyboard backlight down
0x96 kbdillumup         # FN+F10 Keyboard backlight up
0xB3 silentmode         # FN+F11 Silentmode (NOT WORKING)
0xD5 wlan               # FN+F12 WiFi  (NOT WORKING)

/lib/udev/keymaps/force-release/samsung-other

# list of scancodes (hex or decimal), optional comment
0xCE # FN+F1 System Settings
0x89 # FN+F2 Brightness down
0x88 # FN+F3 Brightness up
0x82 # FN+F4 Switch video mode
0xCE # FN+F1 System Settings
0x89 # FN+F2 Brightness down
0x88 # FN+F3 Brightness up
0x82 # FN+F4 Switch video mode
0xF7 # Fn+F5 Touchpad on
0xF9 # FN+F5 Turn touchpad off
0x97 # FN+F9 Keyboard backlight down
0x96 # FN+F10 Keyboard backlight up
0xB3 # FN+F11 Silentmode
0xD5 # FN+F12 WiFi

The volumn keys and trackpad all worked for me so I didn’t change them.