Comment 44 for bug 189260

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 189260] Re: Backlight doesn't turn on after resume

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 09:53:14PM -0000, Stefan Bader wrote:
> I don't think rolling the kernel back would help anything. The fix for 2.6.25 changes suspend/resume support of the kernel that wasn't there before. But I could be wrong there.
> However, if I read the initial issue correctly, suspend/resume works but the backlight is not turned on. If manually switching to text mode helps, might this be done automatically? The hibernate package seems to have an option (probably in conjunction with the vbetool) that could help:
>
> SwitchToTextModeOnResume <boolean>
> Use this to, on resume, switch to a text console and back.

We don't use the hibernate package in Ubuntu. acpi-support provides similar
functionality (and various other bits) and is installed by default in Ubuntu.

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 - mdz