Same for me. Vaio VGN-S560P. Fn keys work now since Bug #39820 seems to be resolved after some communication with the maintainer of smartdimmer (eventhough bug was not marked as resolved).
But the display is neither dimmed by the gnome-power-manager nor by kpowersave which I installed later. As mentioned in Bug #29527 there is no indicator for brightness keystrokes like for the volume keys. Hope that is resolved soon either. -- Monitor does not dim when switching to battery. https://launchpad.net/bugs/23224 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs