Comment 11 for bug 53059

This is a known problem with a number of HP laptops. For some bizzare reason, the hardware appears to get into a bad state if it is shut down with the psmouse driver loaded. More details at (long URL): http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/questionanswer.do?threadId=1026460&admit=-682735245+1161622326097+28353475

I've created a workaround, but putting a "psmouse" script in /etc/init.d (attached), and then setting it to execute at the appropriate runlevels with "update-rc.d psmouse start 10 2 3 4 5 . stop 01 0 1 6 ." I also added "psmouse" to the "STOP_SERVICES" variable in "/etc/default/acpi-support", so the module also gets unloaded on suspend.