Upon taking advice from the lovely Matthew Garrett on IRC I did the following prior to suspending the laptop..
$ sudo rmmod sdhci I then suspended the laptop by tapping the power button and choosing "suspend". I waited until the pulsing power light signalled it was suspended, and tapped the power button. It came back perfectly. My SSH sessions continued as did my IRC session. Worth noting this is with the binary nvidia driver in use. /me loves ubuntu (and mjg59) \o/ -- Dell XPS Gen2 fails to Resume from Suspend https://launchpad.net/bugs/48209 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs