Dell Laptop Keyboards never generate key-up event

[Aaron Whitehouse]

I noticed this problem with my battery hotkey (Bug #36576).

The first time that the hotkey is pressed I get a notification of the power left etc. as I should. If I press it again then I don't get anything occur.

According to Matthew Garrett:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339110
"Dell hardware is stupid(tm). Pressing the key once generates a key down event.
Pressing it again generates a key repeat event. There's never a key up event.
I'm looking at fixing this in the kernel. It's not a hal or g-p-m bug."

I realise that my description and title are probably slightly off, Matthew, but I thought I would put what I do know into the system for you - feel free to change things to suit.

[Juan Pablo Salazar Bertín (snifer)]

I'm using kernel based on linux-source-2.6.20-13.21 and this bug has been fixed. Thanks!

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