Correct .. Suspend worked fine when the touchpad was a generic mouse. However, this appears a symptom of the synaptics driver. I was able to overcome it with this script from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/59867 . Placing it in /etc/pm/sleeps.d/ . #!/bin/sh # # Reload the AT keyboard interface. case "$1" in hibernate|suspend) rmmod psmouse ;; thaw|resume) modprobe psmouse ;; *) ;; esac Also, the inability to shutdown seems to have fixed itself, it is a non issue. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@xxxxxxx> To: "James T. Dickson" <james.dickson@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-input@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2011 4:32:22 AM Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: introduce 'notimeout' blacklist for Dell Vostro V13 (was Re: Synaptics touchpad on Dell Vostro V13) On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, James T. Dickson wrote: > I have applied this patch and can report that it has fixed the problem Ubuntu 10.10. Thanks a lot for reporting back. > However, the mouse freezes when a coming out of suspend and the system > will not shutdown. And that doesn't happen with the touchpad being only in PS/2 mode, right? -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html