These are actually two entirely different bugs: one is that hibernation does not work (doesn't work for me with my nvidia card either, FWIW), the other is that hal does not start.
Does the hal problem occur only after resuming from hibernate or right after a fresh boot? Can you get a hal debugging log according to the second half of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices? ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info -- HAL error after return out of hibernation https://launchpad.net/bugs/61706 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
