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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/577514

Title:
  Fn keys brightness controls on laptop not working

Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Mint9, x64, on a Toshiba with core2duo (intel t5200), centrino (intel
  graphics, wifi, lan):

  I have a very standard and prevalent chipset (and graphics).

  The Fn keys are not detected on install, and don't work with ANY of
  the utilities available in Synaptic.  )Most importantly (to me) is
  brightness control, as this laptop is now used more as a stationary
  machine, but to others the other FN key functionality is probably
  quite important as well.)

  It was working at one point, in Mint 8.  But then reinstalled Mint8
  and it no longer worked (some things were disabled in Mint8 in the
  end, and taken out of hte repositories, while they were working on the
  next release Mint9 - I can think of Skype and a couple of others, for
  example).  So they probably already know what that is, and it's
  probably easy to put that back in again.

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