mike wrote:
Far on the other side of my building at work I have several linux
boxes that displays a slide-show on a X screen. When our power blinks
the computer will reboot and is fine. The monitor (which is a
flatscreen tv) turns off and stays off until someone turns it on.
From my desk I can easily tell if the computer is up and running, but
I can't find a way to tell if the monitor is on or not.
Does anyone have a way to remotely tell if a monitor is on?
Thanks
Mike
Thanks to everyone for their great suggestions.
From my desk I could run ddcprobe and get-edit They would both tell
me if my IBM monitor was turned off.
Things where looking great.
I began thinking about how to get them installed on all the other
computers, what cronjobs to run and how to get the html set up so I
could monitor things. It was going to be a great afternoon.
Then I decided to try them on one of the flat screen monitors. On or
off they reported the same. Even if I took the power cable off of the
monitor (it was really really off) it was still reporting the same
info. The only way it didn't report the same is if I took the vga cable
off of the monitor.
I guess I will keep looking for a solution.
thanks again for all you help
Mike
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