Suspend/resume problems

[runbei]

On an X32, upon suspend, the backlight remains on. On resume, nothing happens, or the screen is garbled. This problem exists with the following distros: Mint 10 Julia, Mint 10 Debian Edition, OpenSuse 11.3 Gnome.

The good news is that suspend/resume works flawlessly under OpenSuse 11.3 when it is started in Safe Mode.

Elsewhere in this forum, someone solved this problem by adding nomodeset to the kernel parameters in /etc/grub/menu.lst. I tried this, but simply tacking-on nomodeset at the end of the kernel parameters didn't work.

In my search for a solution, I found that this problem exists with many other laptops and distros (including Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora). It would be extremely helpful if the answer was as simple as tweaking the menu.lst. Can anyone tell me where to put the nomodeset command in the first kernel spec? Thanks!

Here is the content of menu.lst:

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# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Jan 13 21:37:52 PST 2011
# THIS FILE WILL BE PARTIALLY OVERWRITTEN by perl-Bootloader
# Configure custom boot parameters for updated kernels in /etc/sysconfig/bootloader

default 0
timeout 8
##YaST - generic_mbr
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message
##YaST - activate

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.3
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HTS541080G9AT00_MPB4LAX6HM7NUM-part1 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HTS541080G9AT00_MPB4LAX6HM7NUM-part2 splash=silent quiet showopts vga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34-12-default

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 11.3
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.34-12-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HTS541080G9AT00_MPB4LAX6HM7NUM-part1 showopts apm=off noresume nosmp maxcpus=0 edd=off powersaved=off nohz=off highres=off processor.max_cstate=1 nomodeset x11failsafe vga=0x314
    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.34-12-default

[Harryc]

Right after vga=0x314, with a space in between

[runbei]

Thanks! In a test before I received your reply, I tried inserting nomodeset just before vga=0x314, and it worked!

You can bet I'll be posting the solution on the OpenSuse and Mint forums.