Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #455129
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 455129

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Gilbert Mendoza (gmendoza) wrote : Re: The black screen remains after opening the laptop

Just to add to this thread, I ended up creating a Gnome keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Super+P) which executes "vbetool dpms on". When the screen in non-responsive, I use the key combination and it turns the power back on.

vbetool needs root privileges, so I just used the setuid attribute so normal users can run it.

sudo chmod +s /usr/sbin/vbetool