This is just a hint but it could solve many of the related bugs here, it only applies to keyboards normally known to work correctly with hotkeys:
I had the same problems here under Karmic (after some system changes) and it came back under Lucid after I thought it was corrected by the upgrade. Strange thing is: this happend with the multimedia special keys only but with a normal "Cherry XPress" usb keyboard (which always happend to work nicely before. Using "showkey" on the console showed that none of these keys were released and concordingly the volume control and other hotkey functions were repeated forever. It gave me some headaches until I decided to unplug and reconnect the keyboard to another usb port where it worked nicely again. I guess since notebook keyboards are connected via USB and FN special keys work like mine this could be the reason for many of these bugs. So if a physical disconnect is possible, try it and start the computer again with usb disconnected. Then reattach the keyboard and see what happens. Maybe unloading the usb hid modules has the same effect but for me the error persisted over several reboots. -- [Jaunty] Volume keys causing an endless loop with pulseaudio https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/348343 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
