Xev doesnt necessarily pick up keypresses from the acpi keys. it aren't keys but acpi events after all, which are then converted to keypresses by the acpi event system. Nevertheless, the brightness keys should work fine without it, since they are managed in hardware (they work outside the OS too) and the keypresses are just to let your desktop know that you've been changing it, so it can give feedback to you about the status. You could see if the key does anything at all by running 'sudo acpi_listen' and see if it gives output for your key. It should give the following output:
hotkey ATKD 0000002e 00000003 hotkey ATKD 0000002d 00000002 hotkey ATKD 0000002c 00000001 hotkey ATKD 0000002b 00000001 hotkey ATKD 0000001c 00000001 hotkey ATKD 0000001d 00000001 hotkey ATKD 0000001e 00000002 hotkey ATKD 0000001f 00000008 This was from turning the brightness on my A6K down by 4 (Fn+F5), and up by 4 (Fn+F6) (ignore the 4th value, its just a number that goes up when you generate the same event again). If your output is different, post it here and i can probably give you instructions to fix it. If your Fn+F6 does not generate events, it may be physically broken. Also, as a temporary workaround, you can try to adjust the brightness with: sudo echo "X" > /proc/acpi/asus/brn where X is a number between 0 (dark) and 15 (bright). -- [gutsy] some asus hotkeys no longer work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/124736 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
