Appears to be present in Raring, Saucy, and Trusty kernels so it is clearly related to the unique hardware of this Samsung notebook.
What has changed is the behaviour with Trusty. In earlier versions of Xubuntu the volume function keys didn't cause is state requiring a reboot.
Now looking at getting the scancodes for the keys to see if it is possible to reprogram them.
Appears to be present in Raring, Saucy, and Trusty kernels so it is clearly related to the unique hardware of this Samsung notebook.
What has changed is the behaviour with Trusty. In earlier versions of Xubuntu the volume function keys didn't cause is state requiring a reboot.
Now looking at getting the scancodes for the keys to see if it is possible to reprogram them.