Comment 28 for bug 23497

I'm using a Clevo M121W laptop which is displaying these symptoms. The keyboard and mouse can be reclaimed using ssh from another host with the commands in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/23497/comments/17 , but the patched version of acpi-support from Scott doesn't work for me and causes an uncontrolled switch-off crash on resume. Because of the version numbers, it is also a downgrade from the feisty final acpi-support version of 0.95, which causes installation problems.

Feeling intrepid, I grabbed the suspend.d and resume.d scripts from the .deb and installed them manually. Still the same violent crash.

Is there any reason why applying the commands manually works, but doesn't on resume?

Many thanks,
J.