>> What exactly do you mean by suspend and hibernate here? Usually >> hibernate means saving to disk. > >when i read my thinkpad's documentation it described three suspend modes. >suspend, hibernate and save to disk. to be honest i'm not sure what the >difference between suspend and hibernate is (they appear to work the same >when you hit the function keys to invoke that mode).
Hmm. My ThinkPad's documentation talks about two modes and they both work fine. >> If X changed settings then you could probably just change to a different >> VT and change back again. That's worked for me on other computers with >> graphics problems. > >that can work (sometimes, it depends if the graphics is just fried or if the >resolution has changed as well), and also just restarting the window manager >often fixes it. but it's still ugly and a pain. Why not use the VESA FB driver and Xserver-fbdev. Then you could just have your machine run "fbset -a" on resume... -- I'm in Utrecht. I'd like to meet any Linux users in the area, or any other part of the Netherlands.