LXDE will not suspend when laptop lid is closed, and will die when woken up

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Published on 2012-02-12T09:44:27Z Indexed on 2012/06/26 3:24 UTC
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I am not an experienced Linux user, although I have been using Ubuntu occassionally some time already. ( Since Feisty Fawn probably? ).

Now I installed Ubuntu 11.10 and it is nice ( well, after I installed LXDE, Unity sucks and I didn't really like gnome-fallback-session ), but it has one problem:

After being suspended, when I wake my computer up, it starts up and in about 5 seconds it dies. Like a normal shutdown. Then, when I start it again, the screen stays blank, so I have to hard-turn it off - only then, when I turn it on, it works.

It is an MSI laptop, about 3-4 years old.

The second problem is: After installing LXDE, when I close the laptop lid, it does not suspend. I can only suspend using the shutdown menu - and the waking up problem remains.

Many thanks for your time and advice guys.

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