Comment 26 for bug 295251

There is an additional problem, that the keys don't produce release events. This is fixed by a kernel patch - see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12021

The kernel team should probably take a look at this - once the release event is in place then there are a number of easy ways to assign the hotkeys. The hotkey-setup package is one option, but the HAL option is probably better.

Andy