Comment 5 for bug 987056

* Information

One more information : short keypress on power switch/key is completely ignored.
It has to be held for at least about half a second to get taken into account.
Then usual shutdown dialog box appears.
Still xev does not notice any event.

Conclusion : if you stop thinking of it as a regular key in spite of its appearance, it's a reasonably working power switch.

* Workaround

Comment on http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1860289 mentioned
http://thecodecentral.com/2011/01/18/fix-ubuntu-10-10-suspendhibernate-not-working-bug

> Suspend/Hibernate:
> Follow steps 1, 2 (the new) and 3 from this tutorial (thanks to laoneo for bringing it).

Have not tried hibernate, but tried suspend *once* and it *worked*.
Writing this on the resumed system.

Will soon try with my regular system that has bumblebee to fix the warm air problem.

* Question

Does the workaround mentioned seem ok for inclusion in official Ubuntu ? Any comment ?