Here's the current dmesg from the Thinkpad (case #1). I have resized partitions and installed linux-686 and a few user packages (sawfish, emacs, subversion, dlocate, ssh, apt-file, cvs; some of them obviously from universe) but other than that, this is still by and large freshly installed.
** Attachment added: "Current dmesg" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4303825/dmesg -- Creates too small swap for hibernate https://launchpad.net/bugs/60511 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs