So, updating my BIOS, sadly, did not fix the problem. The result was exactly the same. I suspend the laptop, then resume it. The machine resumes from suspend in every respect except that it doesn't turn the backlight on the screen back on.
With the new BIOS, the output of `sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date` is:
So, updating my BIOS, sadly, did not fix the problem. The result was exactly the same. I suspend the laptop, then resume it. The machine resumes from suspend in every respect except that it doesn't turn the backlight on the screen back on.
With the new BIOS, the output of `sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date` is:
8IET41WW(1.14)
02/26/2013