Enabling ACPI on laptop

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> More details: when I go back to the original acpi-support script, I
> _can_ suspend like in Fedora, but the screen and keyboard do not come
> back! The screen obviously does not work, but I verified the keyboard
> by trying to switch to a text console and shutting down from there. No
> good.
> 
> I'll see if I can play with the options in acpi-support and come up
> with working suspend. Thanks.
> 

When I was using kpowersave for this, I had to enable an option to do
a "vbetool post" after resume.  Before that, I got fairly adept at
Ctrl-Alt-F1, Username, Password, "sudo vbetool post", password - all
without any keyboard feedback.  If I managed without any errors, I would
get my display back!

Now I'm using the default "Power Manager", which doesn't have all the
options of Powersave, but has never failed to bring my display back,
either.
-- 
derek