as with Soren, setting SAVE_VBE_STATE to false appears to have solved this. I just did five consecutive suspend/resumes at least and the system appears to be functioning as expected.
In terms of which laptops, as I mentioned above, this is an IBM Thinkpad X40, type 2372. Additional info available on request. -- Rendering problems on edgy with Intel Integrated Graphics Device https://launchpad.net/bugs/60882 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
