On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:33:51AM -0500, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Nicolas Joly wrote:
> >Work fine on my DELL Inspiron 2600 with ex@pci, both for suspend and
> >resume. This is great as i can't make the screen back ... even with
> >issueing a `vbetool post' command.
> 
> As a workaround, I've observed on Dell laptops if you enable a power-on 
> password in the BIOS, it may be enough to bring the display back on 
> resume.

Unfortunately, this does not work ...

Both `power-on' and `hdd-access' BIOS passwords seems to be ignored
when resuming as i do not need to enter anything and the screen stays
black.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.