Comment 87 for bug 232170

(In reply to comment #7)
> No...I think backlight keys are bios handled...they work also in grub, kernel
> booting, etc....
> No popup.....
>
> no xev output for Fn keys and no dmesg ....
>
> because of this, we used acpid and some scripts to handle these events....I
> don't remember what we used to read the keyevents.
>
> So... the "lamer" scripts + acpid must continue to exist.... I don't think
> someone will handle this events in kernel or with an official rpm.....

The kernel module will need some work then. I copied Matthew and Richard that
could help. It would certainly be easier if they had access to an EeePC ;)