@Taner Senyurt:

I'd like to point out:

1) This isn't a problem with Jaunty, nor Intrepid. Instead, it's a problem with 
the "evdev" driver. The reason these problems are showing up in these 
distributions is that they use the newer "evdev" driver instead of the older 
"kbd" driver.
2) The link you posted to your blog/solution is actually pretty much a 
transpose of my earlier "temp fix", located at 
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=974723. While it's fine that you 
copy-pasted and paraphrased my work (including letter-for-letter my code, 
including my comments); I'd appreciate two things in the future: firstly, 
credit where credit's due is always nice, and secondly, please, please, please, 
please, please include the disclaimers I posted to the top of that post. My 
'solution' is nothing more 
than a temporary fix; it's very user-specific and requires attention any time 
there is an evdev update. 

The problem still exists in Jaunty's evdev because the developers aren't
quite sure where to fix it. Different models of computer behave
differently given the volume keys. Most of these problem laptops 'hang'
because they never send a key-up event; other computers (the majority)
do. If one modifies the driver the way I have in the post I've written
above, it's at the price of other users having a different problem: they
press and hold their volume up key, and the volume only increments once.

The real solution needs to be implemented in a way that doesn't
negatively affect the majority for the sake of providing functionality
to the minority. For now, the minority can use this 'temp fix', while
the developers decide where exactly to implement this 'fix'
functionality. Perhaps later, there will be a more conclusive solution.

** Also affects: evdev
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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