I was noticing that my screen was black (well the back-light was off but I could tell that that there was very dim color) whenever I would wake up from sleep. Since I have the option set to enter a password, I couldn't use the brightness keys to adjust the brightness and see what I was doing.

The solution was to put the following in /etc/pm/power.d/10_backlight_max
Code:
#!/bin/sh

fblevel 15
15 is the max brightness for my screen, but fblevel supports numbers up to 30.