I had this problem on Dell Inspiron 5100, Ubuntu 8.10 and now that I
updated the kernel to 2.6.27-8 the problem persists exactly the same
way as I described it before. Is this update supposed to fix it?
I am not sure if the following is relevant, but here is what I think may be the
reason for this.
I looked at the changes to /drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c, as reported by
Richard Hughes earlier, and realized that the condition for this patch to work
is that some hardware identification strings need to match with whatever string
is written in that file (/drivers/input/keyboard/atkbd.c). So, assume this file
contains a comparison like this:
DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
However, on my system, when I execute
$ sudo dmidecode | grep Vendor
the output is:
Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
which, although referring to the same manufacturer, is still entirely
different string. Maybe the problem is that different laptops identify
themselves with slightly differently and the patch is not general enough
to account for all of them?
Attached is output after sudo dmidecode.
** Attachment added: "dmidecode.txt"
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19556808/dmidecode.txt
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