Comment 63 for bug 217504

I've added an updated acpi-support package to my PPA that should fix this issue regardless of the kernel used. It splits up the work that acpi_fakekey is currently doing into an acpi_fakekeyd daemon that creates a uinput device and then listens for input on a fifo and an acpi_fakekey frontend that sends keycodes to the fifo. The package also contains a fix for bug #59695.

i386:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/thjaeger/ubuntu/pool/main/a/acpi-support/acpi-support_0.114+ppa2_i386.deb
amd64:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/thjaeger/ubuntu/pool/main/a/acpi-support/acpi-support_0.114+ppa2_amd64.deb