945gma display blank after power failure regression

Hello,

I have kernel 2.6.37 and an
Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) in an asus s96f laptop. The battery is shot so it doesn't stay up for a second on a power failure. I have recently started experiencing a problem where if the display has been blanked by KDE because of being idle and I have a power failure then when the laptop boots up I have a completely blank display. I wait till I think it is up and do a blind login as my KDE session starts up it turns on the display.

When is it booting I don't see anything - not the bios screen nothing. This is very disconcerting. The first time it happened I thought my lcd panel had died.

Any ideas on how to keep this from happening. I don't think this happened on previous kernels.

Thank,
Steve

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