Are you sure it is just the backlight that is off? (Does changing its brightness restore the display?) Can you please attach a drm.debug=6 dmesg from across the suspend & resume?
** Changed in: xserver-xorg-video-intel (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1287352 Title: screen does not wake after suspend always, intel Status in “xserver-xorg-video-intel” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Hardware is *-display:0 description: VGA compatible controller product: Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0 version: 03 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom configuration: driver=i915 latency=0 thi s is a problem after upgradeing from 13.10 to 14.04 beta. System has latest 14.04 updates After suspend, the screen does not resume. There is no backlighting. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1287352/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp