Comment 7 for bug 585258

I add that when I press Fn+F8 in linux-image-2.6.31-21-generic after gdm has started, nothing happens but a new line is written to dmesg:

dell-wmi: Unknown key 42 pressed

Moreover I'm not sure that the time when it stops working is exactly when gdm starts, it could very well be sometime during bootup before gdm.