[Bug 356952] [NEW] Some hotkeys don't work on Samsung R610

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Hopefully I've done this correctly after following the hotkeys
troubleshooting guide at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hotkeys/Troubleshooting

A number of hotkeys on my Samsung R610 laptop do not work with Jaunty
(they didn't work with Intrepid either). The keys that do not work are:

fn+f2 Show battery gauge (Samsung specific feature)
fn+f4 Switch between crt/lcd (haven't been able to test with external yet but the screen doesn't go black)
fn+f5 Turn backlight on/off
fn+f8 Easy speedup manager (Samsung specific feature)
fn+f9 Wireless on/off
fn+up Brightness up
fn+down Brightness down

I do not expect the Samsung features to work however I included them
just in case something could be done with them. The easy speedup manager
is supposed to toggle between low power mode, normal mode and high
performance mode. The wireless and brightness buttons are most important
for me.

$ sudo input-events 5
/dev/input/event5
   bustype : BUS_I8042
   vendor  : 0x1
   product : 0x1
   version : 43841
   name    : "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
   phys    : "isa0060/serio0/input0"
   bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC EV_LED EV_REP

waiting for events
11:52:35.080222: EV_MSC code=4 value=28
11:52:35.080249: EV_KEY KEY_ENTER (0x1c) released
11:52:35.080254: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
17:16:20.258716: EV_MSC code=4 value=131 // battery gauge
17:16:20.258754: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
17:17:31.738624: EV_MSC code=4 value=130 // crt/lcd toggle
17:17:31.738669: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
17:18:47.673316: EV_MSC code=4 value=132 // backlight toggle
17:18:47.673352: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
17:19:23.040102: EV_MSC code=4 value=179 // easy speedup manager
17:19:23.040141: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
17:20:04.930854: EV_MSC code=4 value=134 // wireless toggle
17:20:04.930894: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
11:52:36.370487: EV_MSC code=4 value=136 // brightness up
11:52:36.370527: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
11:52:37.660778: EV_MSC code=4 value=137 // brightness down
11:52:37.660816: EV_SYN code=0 value=0

Please excuse the timestamps as I did the brightness keys earlier. Here
is the system info:

$ lshal | grep system.hardware
  system.hardware.primary_video.product = 1768  (0x6e8)  (int)
  system.hardware.primary_video.vendor = 4318  (0x10de)  (int)
  system.hardware.product = 'R610'  (string)
  system.hardware.serial = 'EY5793HQB00974'  (string)
  system.hardware.uuid = 'C0974B31-D21D-B211-8000-D9D1D18FB64A'  (string)
  system.hardware.vendor = 'SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.'  (string)
  system.hardware.version = 'Not Applicable'  (string)

It is an nVidia graphics card also if that matters.

** Affects: udev (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Some hotkeys don't work on Samsung R610
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356952
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