I found the program "dpms" available at http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mjg59/laptops/dpms_0.1-1.tar.gz very useful for my inspiron 6000, it allows to turn the screen back on (wether at a text console or running X Window) when the lid is opened (needs to be added to the acpi scripts on a lid open event) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
i have make an ebuild for dpms you can find it over there: http://portman.bsdplanet.org/ebuilds/dpms-0.1.tar.gz I think that this will be helpful
No progress here for one year, closing WONTFIX. Feel free to reopen with an ebuild (no, we don't want links to external tarballs).