Brightness function keys don`t work on the Acer Aspire One AO715h

[Kemel Zaidan aka Legendario]

Binary package hint: xorg

Brightness function keys don`t work on the Acer Aspire One AO715h. But they used to work well on jaunty.
I am using karmic UNR and have tested jaunty UNR for a few days.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 2 01:50:42 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook-Remix 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.2)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Acer AO751h
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=cbfc1f53-d091-4f0f-b8c7-a3c4fa85fac5 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR.UTF-8
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 05/12/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V0.3204
dmi.board.name: JV11-ML
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV0.3204:bd05/12/2009:svnAcer:pnAO751h:pvrNotApplicable:rvnAcer:rnJV11-ML:rvrNotApplicable:cvnAcer:ct1:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: AO751h
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic

[Andreas Bulling (spam-hierher)]

same for me on an Aspire One using UNR 9.10 (Gnome)

[Andreas Bulling (spam-hierher)]

Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia Sonix USB 2.0 Camera
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Acer AO751h
Package: xserver-xorg-video-psb 0.31.0-0ubuntu1~904um1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=e033b967-ec7f-428a-ac7e-9dda8de3b092 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_CH.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-17.54-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu10
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2.1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-17-generic i686
UserGroups:

dmi.bios.date: 05/12/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: V0.3204
dmi.board.name: JV11-ML
dmi.board.vendor: Acer
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrV0.3204:bd05/12/2009:svnAcer:pnAO751h:pvrNotApplicable:rvnAcer:rnJV11-ML:rvrNotApplicable:cvnAcer:ct1:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: AO751h
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-17-generic

[Andreas Bulling (spam-hierher)]

I used showkeys on the console under X and it seems that this is a kernel issue:
for volume up/down keycodes are reported but not for brightness up/down