When I upgraded my Ubuntu to Feisty everything was quite fine. The only things which didn’t work were some hotkeys. Basically I could switch between very bright and very dark and the option for changing brightness in the power manager also disappeared. There was also no way to control the audio from the hotkeys. The hotkey for hibernating still worked.
In the last release I don’t remember exactly if I installed this hotkey driver or if it worked out of the box.
To make the hotkeys work again I got this archive which fixes the problem. The readme tells you where to put the files. This bugreport deals with the problem. The readme says that the files from the archive will not work if you didn’t install the hotkey drivers.
The other good thing which will be fixed is that you now have 10 brightness levels available. Before there were just very bright and very dark, now I can go through the different levels which I really missed before.
If only there were hot keys for disabling ppc links and email marketing spam that hit our email boxes. A one-click solution to slow adsl speeds and redundant domain names would be an instant success. The marketing should get right on that.
