On Friday 27 June 2003 05:53 am, Doug Lerner wrote: > I usually keep my Redhat 9 display turned off. When I need to see it, I > turn it on, jiggle the mouse and it wakes up from its energy-saving mode. > > But right now the display won't wake up. So I can't see the Linux system at > all. It's running ok, but I can't access it. There is no remote login > permitted - I always do everything right at the console. > > I don't even know if I am currently in a shell or not. > > Is there anything I can do? I tried cntrl-alt-backspace to restart X, but > there was no reaction. I tried unplugging and plugging in the monitor > itself, but that didn't help. > > I hate to just power down and power up, because that is always slightly > risky for the server software I am currently running. Besides, if the > problem is that the graphics board failed for some reason, after starting > up I couldn't get in to do anything. > > Right now everything is running ok, but I do need to get into the system to > run backups, etc. > > Anybody have any suggestions? Any secret Linux "wake up display" keystrokes > or anything like that?
I had a similar problem twice before (in the last year) with Redhat 7.3. It's weird. I tried everything that I could think of, but the monitor just didn't wake up. In the other case, it's showing "No signal" thing. The only I could do is reboot the machine, then everything is fine. I just press CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot it. Those happens when the machine already had an uptime over a month (I *hate* to loose those uptimes). In one day, it was OK, and the next day I came into my office, it's like that. So, sorry I can't help, but can't you try rebooting with CTRL+ALT+DEL as a last resort ? RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
