This is not an Ubuntu problem, at least not on the Acer Aspire One D250.
I upgraded to the latest BIOS (on the Acer site; for the D250 it's
version 1.06 that I installed) and the lid events now work properly.

There are two problems with this still, one minor, one major but one-
time only:

1. When you power off, you have to wait until the system halts before
closing the lid or it reboots!  Not sure I understand why, but it's easy
enough, you just need 15 seconds of patience.

2. Acer in their wisdom made the BIOS updating program a Windows
executable.  This gave me real trouble (WINE won't run it properly,  and
I didn't have the ambition to disassemble).  I installed BartPE on a USB
thumb drive and booted from the stick, and then it worked.

Of course if you flash your BIOS you do it at your own risk.  I was
successful but if you make a brick out of your machine that is your
responsibility alone.

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[acer aspire one D150] ACPI lid events are broken
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364592
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