Out of the box, it will go to sleep (suspend to ram)
when you hit Fn-F4, but on wakeup the backlight.
Based on a Ubuntu bug report (which I've now lost track of) that mentioned
switching virtual terminals turned the backlight back on, I
created /etc/apci/resume.d/99-switchvt.sh to automate that
Not the most beautiful solution in the world, but it works. I have
submitted a
[[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=439914][debian
bug]]
- UPDATED Another workaround is to add the kernel parameter
- acpi_sleep=s3_bios