On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 10:26:27AM -0700, Carl D. Blake wrote: > On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 08:48, Carl D. Blake wrote: > > I've lost the ability to switch virtual consoles on my Woody system. > > One of the sysadmins logged in as the backup user through the kdm > > desktop and when he logged out the monitor went dark. Now we can't > > switch to a virtual console using Ctrl-Alt-Fn, nor can we switch to the > > kdm desktop with Ctrl-Alt-F7. I've seen something like this happen on > > other linux systems before and my only solution was to reboot. I hate > > to do that for something so stupid. Is there some way to restore this > > functionality with rebooting the system? > > > > > I've done some more investigation. It appears that something has > happened to the video system. I can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then type in > the username and password and when I check from an SSH connection I can > see that I have successfully logged in on tty1. But I can't see > anything on the console screen. I then pressed Ctrl-Alt-F7 and then > pressed Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart the X server. When I did that the > monitor's LED light went green for a moment as if it were about to > display some video, but then it went orange again indicating that there > was no video. Again I have seen this behavior before where the video > system is somehow munged. Does anyone know how to fix it without > rebooting? This is a server being used by other people and I really > hate to take it down.
If you can log in, try to issue the command `reset' (without the quotes), even if you can't see what you type. Hopefully this will set the terminal to a sane state. You might also want to look for utilities which set the video card and or the keyboard to a sane state. Unfortunately I don't remember how exactly to locate them. You might want to start with google, and/or svgalib. -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw (sent by shaulk @ actcom . net . il) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
