I just found another workaround offered at Ubuntu: turn off HAL before suspend and restart on wake. This has the advantage of allowing CD/DVD polling. They have a patch for it.
The patch: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/attachment.cgi?id=507 The bugreport: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1940 -Charles -- Charles R. Twardy www.csse.monash.edu.au/~ctwardy Monash University sarbayes.org Computer Sci. & Software Eng. +61(3) 9905 5823 (w) 5146 (fax) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]