Screen stays black after resume

[Nate Lawson]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Oliver B. Fischer wrote:
> Nate Lawson wrote:
> > Um, safe mode disables ACPI so how can you suspend/resume in safe mode?
>
> By pressing Fn + F4. The interesting thing is that the acpi device is
> not present, so I am not able to use acpiconf -s 3. But as I said, I am
> able to suspend via Fn + F4. If I suspend the system from the console, I
> can resume.

That's using SMM mode then.  You need "device apm" when ACPI is disabled
to properly suspend/resume.  Without apm or acpi, you're trusting in the
BIOS to do everything for you, which is not supported.

-Nate