I'm running on Xbuntu 13.10 - 64bit. My machine is brand new Asus N750JV-T4069H notebook. I currently use Nvidia 331.20 (open source) driver, but have exactly the same problematic situation on clean installation, too. Xubuntu 13.10 - clean installation with all updates pastebinit /var/log/dmesg http://paste.ubuntu.com/6521991/ Xubuntu 13.10 - current situation pastebinit /var/log/dmesg http://paste.ubuntu.com/6568550/ NOT OK: - Power manager is set to reduce display brightnes to 20% after 120 seconds of inactivity, but nothing happens (my screen server is disabled). - Sound indicator icon malfunction (solved with Exec=/usr/lib/indicator-sound-gtk2/indicator-sound-service) - Power Adapter shows not connected - No keyboard backlightng - FN (F3) Decreases keyboard backlighting - FN (F4) Increases keyboard backlighting (I can turn on keyboard backlight with sudo chmod 777 /sys/class/leds/asus::kbd_backlight/brightness echo 3 > /sys/class/leds/asus::kbd_backlight/brightness but effect is lost after turning the computer off and on again). - FN (F9) Enables or disables the touchpad - FN (F5) Decreases display brightness - FN (F6) Increases display brightness (I can adjust brightness only via panel applet) - FN (F2) Turns Airplane mode on or off - FN (F1) Notebook returns from sleep mode with broken screen and strange vertical colour lines OK: - Battery shows 100% - FN (F7) Turns the display panel off - FN (F8) Activates the second screen - FN (F10) Turns the speaker on or off - FN (F11) Turns the speaker volume down - FN (F12) Turns the speaker volume up If I remove Xfce from Xubuntu and install GNOME Shell or Cinnamon, everything ok except F5 and F6 buttons. If instead of Xfce I install KDE-Plasma into Xubuntu, there's an option in keyboard settings to assign to F5 and F6 functions of display brightness adjustment - in that way my machine becomes 100% ok. If it can help in any way, here's the result when I apply following commands: $ xfce4-power-manager --quit # $ xfce4-power-manager --no-daemon # (xfce4-power-manager:3494): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: Unable to create proxy for 'org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit' (xfce4-power-manager:3494): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: could not map keysym 1008ffa8 to keycode (xfce4-power-manager:3494): xfce4-power-manager-WARNING **: 'CheckAuthorization' failed with Action org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-set-spindown is not registered
This is a late reply, but this bugreport - at least in this form - is not very helpful. Always focus on *one* single issue when reporting a bug, otherwise bugreports become too confusing. Here's a quick response and then I'll close this bugreport, as most of what you mention here has been reported elsewhere. Keyboard brightness: wasn't supported until recently, should hopefully work in git master now. Display brightness: yeah, not all LCDs or displays are supported. Not sure we can improve that, haven't looked into that at all. Harald Judt recently added support for more Intel displays, so I guess we'd have to know more about yours. Broken suspend: that sounds like it's related to graphics drivers, I've seen corrupted screens on wakeups on many machines, can't really imagine xfpm is the cause as it doesn't really do much with the display during suspend/wakeup. Other multimedia keys: xfpm doesn't handle multimedia keys apart from those power-related ones. Switching a touchpad on/off was never implemented (and I'm really not sure it should be) – same goes for airplane mode.