Try enabling hotkey event in the thinkpad-acpi module! This way hal gets the events, or you could control the events from the acpi interface in /etc/acpi.
echo 0x00ffffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- No notification when sliding audio volume, muting volume, sliding LCD brightness on X31, X32, T60, R50e, T42, R52 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/357673 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs