SirFrankie, my deepest apologies for confusion with attached patch. The
path to LEDs has indeed changed from asus-laptop to asus_laptop when
upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10. Fn+F2 was working out of the box when
performing clean 9.10 install.

The original patch I posted here was only to make Network Manager to
turn wireless LED on and off upon network connection and disconnect. It
is not meant to fix any of the special keys and is a rough fix anyway as
wireless LED is supposed to blink to indicate wireless activity.

I used to run asus_acpi daemon as normal user prior to 9.10 in order to
get the keys working. Now that we can see some progress with standard
acpid I would look into /etc/acpi/events directory to configure hot keys
the right way. For now, I am correcting the original LEDs patch and is
going to fix Touchpad button and post the fix here. Special keys like
Power Profile, Fn+C, Fn+V and Fn+T are more or less a matter of personal
preference so please feel free to contact me directly if you need help
configuring them one way or another. It would be nice if we could agree
on what the defaults for those keys should be as well.

Please note that the hot keys are now all being translated to key codes
reported by showkey command, and as such should be configurable with
System->Preferences->Shortcuts menu, with Touchpad button being obvious
exception.

The default key codes reported by "sudo showkey -k" command and
corresponding keysyms reported by xev command are listed below.

Media Player - 226 (XF86AudioMedia)
Power Profile (also Fn+Space) - 152 (XF86ScreenSaver)
Web Browser - 150 (XF86WWW)
TouchPad on/off (ATKD 06b)- 330
Wireless on/off (Fn+F2) - 238 (XF86WLAN)
Asus Splendid (Fn+C, ATKD 08a) - 148 (XF86Launch1)
Webcam (Fn+V) - 212 (XF86WebCam)
Asus4Phone (Fn+T) - 169 (XF86Phone)

As you can see, most keys are mapped correctly with default settings. I
would really appreciate to be able to switch power profiles with the hot
key rather then going through Screensaver and Power preferences windows
each time I need to watch online movie or anything like that. So that my
default profile would be:

Screensaver and display lock in 5 minutes
Brightness at 85%
Dim display on inactivity
Turn display off in 10 minutes

and my alternative profile for watching movies online could be

Screensaver off
Brightness at 100%
Do not dim display on inactivity
Turn off display - never

In the meantime, in order to correct Touchpad button issue please copy
attached asus-f5n-touchpad file onto /etc/acpi/events directory and
restart acpid as follows.

sudo cp asus-f5n-touchpad /etc/acpi/events/
sudo chmod 644 /etc/acpi/events/asus-f5n-touchpad
sudo restart acpid

You may also wish to move the file /etc/acpi/events/asus-f8sv-touchpad
out of acpi directory before restarting acpid. This file is responsible
for Fn+C locking the touchpad and is supposed to fix touchpad button on
Asus F8 series. Hope this helps.

** Attachment added: "Fix touchpad on 9.10 by copying this file onto 
/etc/acpi/events/"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35743428/asus-f5n-touchpad

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