Comment 27 for bug 657338

I was experiencing a similar problem on a Dell Inspiron 14R (N4010) since I installed 10.04. This was the initial install. The problem I had was that the system would go into suspend and there was no way to resume. Open the lid -- nothing happened. Hit the keyboard, noting happened. Move the mouse, nothing happened. Push the resume button --- nothing happened.

However, I do have a workaround that makes the suspend/resume cycle work correctly. I added the atkbd.reset parameter to my kernel, and I now do not have any troubles with the suspend/resume cycle. To do this, I edited my /etc/default/grub and added the atkbd.reset parameter to my default_linux load line right next to "quiet splash". The is ran a sudo update-grub and I have not had any problem with resume or the FN keys.

Bruce