Comment 71 for bug 23497

Lethe, thanks a milion, your solution works here on a HP Pavilion dv5 running ubuntu 8.10.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/23497/comments/67
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5220536&postcount=19

But ... you need to stay away from the keyboard while the computer resumes itself, or it stops working :/