Thanks Mario. I won't add the Dell project to any additional Inspiron 1420 issues. I didn't realize the project policy was to only support the release the laptop was shipped under.
Killing the gnome-settings-daemon did result in a KeyRelease using xev. These are the results: KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001, root 0x13b, subw 0x3200002, time 348823, (39,30), root:(714,83), state 0x0, keycode 136 (keysym 0xff69, Cancel), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False Also I would have expected the key action to be XF86AudioStop and not Cancel. Marking linux invalid, and adding acpi-support and hal (copying Bug #267682) -- Dell Inspiron 1420 Stop playback hotkey not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/278658 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs