I have this laptop too and installed Karmic, and I'm having exactly the same kind of issues, only the sound modifier works with the arrows keys, but not the brightness..
I wonder if ubuntu people could manage this things better and without the need of recompiling the kernel we could all have a .deb in backported modules or something that will detect our laptop model, (or a .deb per non-standard laptop) that will tweak your ubuntu detect everything... -- Samsung "R519/R719": fn buttons don't work, can set brightness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/436702 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