Don't know if the following information is of any use, but I have tried the Karmic kernel with my 8.10 system and the bug doesn't travel with the kernel ie Fn+F6 seems to work fine in 8.10 + Karmic kernel (this was 2.6.31-10 generic).
-- Hotkey fn + f6 not detected on an MSI Wind https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/276495 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