buhrow@cats.ucsc.edu (Brian Buhrow) writes:
> 	Any ideas on how I can debug the scripts and why suspending the
> machine with lid closure and resuming with lid opening requires an
> additional resume with the power button?

have a look at the apm support in the kernel. You may want to define
APMDEBUG or any of its other twiddles to help you debugging this
problem.

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