Won't launch ubuntu. Setkeycodes e004d

[Jonhdoe]

I turn on my inspiron 1501 with ubuntu installed and the following lines keep scrolling: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e00d <keycode>' to make it known. Unknown key pressed ( translated set 2, code 0x8d on isa0060/serio0). What is this problem and how do I fix it?

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

maybe this is a duplicate of bug 549741

[Keng-Yu Lin (lexical)]

It seems a BIOS issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454131.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Jonhdoe,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 664267

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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