Comment 9 for bug 278658

Thanks Mario. I won't add the Dell project to any additional Inspiron 1420 issues. I didn't realize the project policy was to only support the release the laptop was shipped under.

Killing the gnome-settings-daemon did result in a KeyRelease using xev. These are the results:

KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001,
    root 0x13b, subw 0x3200002, time 348823, (39,30), root:(714,83),
    state 0x0, keycode 136 (keysym 0xff69, Cancel), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
    XFilterEvent returns: False

Also I would have expected the key action to be XF86AudioStop and not Cancel.

Marking linux invalid, and adding acpi-support and hal (copying Bug #267682)