After much experimenting it's become clear that the problem exists because of conflicts in the acpi-support scripts and laptop-mode-tools. Removing acpi-support will allow laptop-mode-tools to behave as expected. Of course isn't a practical option.
After much experimenting it's become clear that the problem exists because of conflicts in the acpi-support scripts and laptop-mode-tools. Removing acpi-support will allow laptop-mode-tools to behave as expected. Of course isn't a practical option.