T440s fn ctrl swap bios bug

Hi,
I think this was documented before, but I am now experiencing the fn ctrl swap bug when going to sleep.
I have swapped my fn and ctrl keys, and the setting never stays after resuming from deep sleep.
I have updated my bios to the latest version (2.19) but it has not fixed it.
Please advise. I do not want to turn off deep sleep.
Cheers
Solved!
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Thank you for reporting this. Yes, I can confirm it is BIOS bug. We had this same issue on T430 generation and fixed it. But now it seems T440 generation also suffers from this same bug, needs fix. So I will report this to BIOS team. Sorry for this inconvenience.

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I have a T440, and I've set in BIOS to swap places for fn and ctrl. This works great until the machine goes to sleep or similar. After awakening the machine the keys are back to their original setting, with fn being fn, and ctrl being ctrl.
I havent explored this in detail but just found the machine sporadically losing the setting, but never while I'm working on it. So either from sleep or from locked screen.
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Hello,
I just got a g560 with an intel i5-450m cpu, 320 gb hard drive, and 4gb ram.
I got this laptop for 599 off newegg and i'm loving it. However, what really irks
me is the placement of the fn and ctrl keys. Because I am a desktop user, I
am used to the ctrl key in the corner. I checked online in places and heard that
lenovo had a fn and ctrl swapping feature thingy in the bios but when I pressed
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possible to swap the fn and ctrl keys for this laptop?
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thanx for the info.
however, as i checked the drivers and updates from
the lenovo driver download place, I saw that there was
a bios update.
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my bios version is lenovo 29cn24ww v(1.07)
and my smbios version is 2.6
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cuz I heard a lot of people saying that after they do a bios
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