Indeed this patch is already upstream and will land in 2.6.32. Unfortunately the current kernel for Karmic is frozen except for critical bug fixes. As a workaround for now, I'd encourage you to use an upstream kernel for now:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.32-rc4/ I've pasted the upstream commit id below: ogasaw...@yoji:~/linux-2.6$ git show 1ba36e11b227e32f818aea5b4d84f5cbff71e7db commit 1ba36e11b227e32f818aea5b4d84f5cbff71e7db Author: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> Date: Thu Sep 3 17:22:04 2009 -0700 Input: atkbd - allow setting force-release bitmap via sysfs There are more and more laptop requiring use of force_release quirk for their multimedia and other specialized keys. Adding their DMI data to the kernel is not sustainable; instead we will rely on help from userspace (HAL) to do that for us. This patch creates a new 'force_release' sysfs attribute (that belongs to serio device to which keyboard is attached) which can be used to set up force_release keymap. For example, Dell laptop owners might do: echo 133-139,143,147 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio0/force_release Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- Samsung NC10 screen brightness up/down function keys do not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/448885 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
