This issue is specific to various nvidia based laptops including some sony models. It is a real issue.
Quoting Steve Langasek <[email protected]>: > This is definitely not a hotkey-setup issue; the hotkey-setup package > only handles setting kernel keymaps for hotkeys, and is deprecated in > favor of hal-info besides. > > I had the opportunity this week to test out hotkey mappings on a variety > of laptops, including one Sony Vaio, and the brightness keys appear to > be recognized correctly as keys - and the brightness was adjusted as > well. I don't know if this was an nvidia-based system, but at least I > didn't see any evidence that the keypresses themselves were not > recognized correctly. > > If you have reason to think that the keypresses are not being recognized > on your system (as opposed to us just not having a good way to *handle* > those keypresses on Ubuntu), please follow > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting and report back with > your results. > > ** Changed in: hotkey-setup (Ubuntu) > Status: In Progress => Invalid > > ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Invalid > > ** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers-177 (Ubuntu) > Status: In Progress => New > > ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) > Status: In Progress => New > -- No Screen Backlight Control; Notebooks (Vaio, Macbook, HP/Compaq, Samsung, Zepto et al.) with Nvidia Geforce8/Geforce9/Quadro series graphics https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95444 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
