I have this too, with Ubuntu 11.10 on a Dell XPS 17 L702X. I'm running Bumblebee for the graphics driver. What is *very* odd is that the brightness keys are very slow if I use the internal keyboard, but they work immediately if I use my external keyboard (a wired Apple aluminium keyboard).
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