Comment 1 for bug 38500

You're absolutely right, this is broken. Does it work if you edit resume.sh and change that block to read

# Attempt to restore some video card state
if [ x$SAVE_VBE_STATE = xtrue ]; then
  vbetool vbestate restore <$VBESTATE
  if [ $VBEMODE != "3" ]; then
    vbetool vbemode set $VBEMODE;
  fi
fi

? The reason to move back to mode 3 is that it's easier to try to get the card into text mode and work from there than it is to reinitialise directly into the vesa mode.