Line 6 of the file root/video-quirks/20-video-quirk-pm-sony.quirkdb contains a double pipe symbol, which means it matches any name and adds the s3_bios quirk. This breaks resume on many Sony laptops. Please see the upstream bug report #25867 and the fix http://cgit.freedesktop.org/hal-info/commit/?id=b53e7b0e6a48b7fad5bc1cdabb7b150b9f5a34a3 This fixes suspend/resume on a Sony Vaio P VGN-P19WN under Xubuntu Lucid Lynx.
I meant to refer to bug 25867 in my original comment...
pm-utils hasn't been touched in eight years, none of this is likely to get addressed. Closing bugs and disabling the bz product.
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