Brightness Keys in Dell N4010 (14R) causing freezes

Question

The brightness keys on my Dell N4010 with Ubuntu 12.04 is causing ubuntu to freeze on a black screen if i press the BrightUp and BrightDown key(s) 3-4 times. I think this is a bug which was noticed in 10.04 and was patched, but its giving problem in 12.04 again to me. I tried remapping and disabling the brightness keys but it did not work out. Please help.

Answer 1

I've managed to get this bug solved!

The answer is here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2181534&p=12819813#post12819813

Create the file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf with the following content:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "card0"
        Driver      "intel"
        Option      "Backlight"  "intel_backlight"
        BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"

EndSection

Log out to see if it works.

Answer 2

Edit "/etc/default/grub" as root.

gksu gedit /etc/default/grub

Now, look for the line that looks like:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Append "acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux" to the end of that line, before the end quotes, so that the line now looks something like this:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor acpi_osi=Linux"

Save and close the file, and run the following command:

sudo update-grub

Now, reboot, and test out the brightness keys. They should be working correctly now.