I have a similar problem to the original poster on my Asus A8Fm. In my case, all except 1 of my keys produces ATKD events using acpi_listen and tail -f /var/log/acpid.
Fn+F6 (open sun/decrease brightness) registers no ATKD event. Fn+F5 increase brightness produces ATKD events from 00000020-0000002e but there are no event handlers for those in /etc/acpi/events. Manually adding an event handler solves the problem for Fn+F5. My laptop details can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AsusA8Fm P/S. Will update the function key mappings in a few hours. -- Hot keys not detected https://launchpad.net/bugs/64290 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs