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I had a problem on a dell laptop at work. It would startup with the display being so dimmed that the lcd screen was black. Could that be the problem in your case and it just seems that it is in the powersave mode?
I had to connect to an external monitor to do anything. There is a bios menu setting which effects the brightness of the LCD display. This wasn't a linux problem however, but a hardware issue.
Check if your boot item has the option "noacpi". This option may cause problems. Try installing the
kdeutils3-laptop, powersave, powersave-libs, and kpowersave packages. You may have them already, but if you don't one of the dependencies may help fix the problem.
The laptop may have a problem waking up if you use more than one swap file. You may also need to assure that the swap is large enough to save the state information it needs to. If you followed the twice the memory rule for the size of the swap file, you are probably OK.
If you plug the laptop into the dock when it is powered off and pressing the power button does absolutely nothing, then it sounds like a hardware problem with either the laptop or the dock.
Good Luck. Oh, by the way, I'm not Jeremy. I hope you don't mind.
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