Bug#438426: xserver-xorg-video-i810: Suspend to RAM doesn't work

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Norbert Sendetzky wrote:
> As an interesting side notice, I've also tested STR while only using the 
> console (in normal and recovery mode). In both cases, the screen also 
> remained black but I could enter commands (like reboot) which were executed. 
> Maybe the problem is a combination of a kernel driver and the X i810 driver. 
> I'm using kernel 2.6.18-4 as 2.6.21 crashes immediately after wakup from STR.
>   

Having the kernel change the behavior like this is interesting. Do you
happen
to have a framebuffer console running? (with intelfb or vesafb kernel module
or so).

Also, you should try either passing acpi_sleep=s3_bios to the kernel, or use
vbetool post after resume (some high-level suspending program can take care
of this for you, for instance with the uswsusp package).

And finally, there's xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.2.0 in unstable, in case
it helps.

Brice