I came across this problem after updating the kernel on my laptop. The hotkeys actually work until after the first wakeup from hibernation. I tried 3.0.9 3.1.1 3.1.2 and for hibernation i used tuxonice. It is not only the acpi events that stop working, also the events that should be delivered as input events. Reloading the module does not help. Having the module not loaded for the hibernation also does not help. After waking up the events will be gone. Do the Arch kernels use tuxonice? Do you receive events before the first hibernation? Henning -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html