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http://askubuntu.com – i bought the samsung new series 9 ultrabook ( NP900X3C ). i installed ubuntu 12.04 and the mainline 3.5 kernel. almost everything works perfectly, except some important function keys don't work. the keys for the screen brightness and the keyboard backlit don't work which is very annoying. i added manually a new keymap required for this notebook model ( guide: http://jablonskis.org/2012/linux-and-samsung-series-laptop-9-fn-keys/ ) but the system doesn't load them. i added the following lines to the udev rules: # /lib/udev/rules.d/95-keymap.rules ENV{DMI_VENDOR}=="[sS][aA][mM][sS][uU][nN][gG (HowTos)

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