Comment 15 for bug 257827

Hi Juan,

A patch recently went into the Intrepid kernel as post release update:

commit 8948ecffc8c56009c4580e684d6e385b2bad96df
Author: Matthew Garrett <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Aug 15 13:54:51 2008 -0400

    Input: atkbd - expand Latitude's force release quirk to other Dells

    Bug: #284066

    Dell laptops fail to send key up events for several of their special
    keys. There's an existing quirk in the kernel to handle this, but it's
    limited to the Latitude range. This patch extends it to cover all
    portable Dells.

I'm curious if it might also resolve this issue you have. The kernel with this patch is still making it's way into the intrepid-proposed repository. However, it would be great though if you could test -proposed once it's there - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed .