Hello All: I also suffered of this problem. After the research I did, I reckon that the problem was that after a suspend to ram (STR) the xorg driver didn't issue a POST on the video card and even changing to a VT and back to X didn't work. But this behaviour only happens in the etch i810 Xorg driver. On the current unstable, the intel does this seaminglessly.
There was a tool called video-post which I've found now here: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/laptops/ It performs a quite aggresive POST which should be done on a text console. This is the more direct way to do video POST. You could also get a video POST obviously by hibernating to disk (= powering off) and then resuming (= poweing on) as Drew suggested. You could use the UseDummyXserver option in the hibernate scripts which would launch a dummy server which hopefully will do a POST somehow. The problem is this is slow and problem prone, at least in my experience. What I had found to work better was using the EnableVbeTool and the VbetoolPost, or maybe some other VbeTools options depending on your system. More info on /usr/share/hibernate/scriptlets.d/vbetool. IMHO this is the smarter and most effective way, but beware of using the SwitchToTextMode and/or UseDummyXServer together with the vbetool options. What you need is combination of them and unfortunately experience will tell you what works better. Good luck! As this problem is still addressed and solved on the intel driver 2.0 I suggest closing this bug. Regards, -- Raúl Sánchez Siles ----->Proud Debian user<----- Linux registered user #416098
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