On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Nate Waddoups wrote:
>
> I tend to leave my server's monitor on all the time in character mode. On
> my old machine (MDA adaptor and monochrome monitor), the screen would go
> blank and stay that way. I'm used to the monitor going blank,
> screen-saver-style, and waking up with you press a key, but after a few
> days (or weeks?) it would just stay blank no matter what. Rebooting would
> fix it, but I couldn't find anything else that would wake it up.
>
> Since I never used the monitor much anyhow, I didn't think much of it...
> Then I upgraded to new hardware and RH 5 and the problem went away. I
> assumed it was fixed. Then I moved to a new machine and RH6 and the
> problem is back.
>
> I've tried killing and restarting mingettys to no effect. Even tried
> SvgaTextMode but no luck there either. I hate the idea that I might have
> to reboot to see my screen again. That just sounds so Gatesian. Anyone
> have a better idea?
I assume you can still get in via network, so the problem is the video.
Not really a fix, but you could turn off the blanking.
setterm -blank 0
I too have many machines running with the blanking on, can't remember
having a problem getting the screen back unless the machine was completely
dead...
HTH,
Bill Carlson
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