Comment 9 for bug 585258

Hey folks, can we get this fixed? It's also a problem on the Dell E6500, and possibly the entire E6xxx series (as well as precision and other more recent Dells).

I've recently posted this..

[ubuntu] 10.4 upgrade - Fn F8 (external monitor flip) not working (post #7)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11176214&postcount=7

..where I note that it appears that the scancodes that are issued by the Dell E6500 keyboard are now different than the ones that were issued by my Dell D820 (and on which fn+f8 external monitor switch works with 10.04.x).

Is the keyboard driver and its default keymaps bound into the kernel? If so that'd explain Lucio Crusca's observations of the behavior being different with only booting different kernel revs.

For a workaround is it possible to dynamically load a new keymap that'd fix this problem?

Please, please, please, can we fix this -- I have to do the external monitor switch thing all the time and I really want to get my E6500 working properly. thanks!!!