I experienced similar problems with my laptop HP Compaq nc6120 in Ubuntu
14.04. The bug is also present in Debian testing when using kernel 3.13
but not with kernel 3.11. Therefore this seems to be a wider laptop
issue and not only Asus-specific and also probably caused by bug in the
upstream kerne
Sorry, but the patch doesn't fix this problem. Although it fixes the bug
about not saving monitor power off setting (bug #46585
https://launchpad.net/bugs/46585 and KDE bug tracker bug #128696
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128696 ).
I made a clean install of Kubuntu 6.10, applied the fix an