These two problems were indeed one. After some more searching around and trying I found out two things: setting RUN_PARALLEL in /etc/sysconfig/boot solves the hotkey-setup freeze problem. Once hotkey-setup is loaded, I can adjust brightness on my machine again, kpowersave allows me to configure it, and my screen dims on AC power. The only annoyance is that with RUN_PARALLEL="no", system boot time is slower.
I am guessing that there is a deadlock with some other service or services at boot. In theory, this could be fixed if I knew the culprit, because then the .depend.start file could me modified to ensure that hotkey-setup is started strictly before or after it. But there are about 15 services in runlevel 5, it's too much hassle to identify one that causes this trouble (that would require testing lots of combinations, and, unless I am very lucky to discover it quickly, many hard reboots). I sent a query to the opensuse mailing list in hopes that someone may have a guess, but other than that I am going to just live with it.
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