Re: How to recover when monitor goes blank.

2024-06-20 Thread Felix Miata
Ram Ramesh composed on 2024-06-20 22:58 (UTC-0400): >> Did you try 'e' as I suggested, or read that page? From there: >> [quote] >> 'e' will force the display to be enabled, i.e. it will override the detection >> if a display is connected. >> [/quote] > Ok, I will try it, but that is a reboot. I

Re: How to recover when monitor goes blank.

2024-06-20 Thread Ram Ramesh
Did you try 'e' as I suggested, or read that page? From there: [quote] 'e' will force the display to be enabled, i.e. it will override the detection if a display is connected. [/quote] Ok, I will try it, but that is a reboot. I guess if I booted with that switch, it will always be on and I wou

Re: How to recover when monitor goes blank.

2024-06-20 Thread Felix Miata
Ram Ramesh composed on 2024-06-20 17:43 (UTC-0500): >> Not to recover, but to perhaps prevent, via kernel cmdline, one can direct >> the >> kernel which framebuffer mode to force-enable with video=, e.g.: >> video=2560x1440@60e >> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/modedb.txt > I

Re: How to recover when monitor goes blank.

2024-06-20 Thread Ram Ramesh
Not to recover, but to perhaps prevent, via kernel cmdline, one can direct the kernel which framebuffer mode to force-enable with video=, e.g.: video=2560x1440@60e https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/fb/modedb.txt -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, b

Re: How to recover when monitor goes blank.

2024-06-20 Thread Felix Miata
Ram Ramesh composed on 2024-06-19 15:45 (UTC-0500): >   I have my monitor, keyboard and mouse shared through a KVM switch. > One host is Linux Debian bookworm 12.5 and another is laptop running > Windows 11. When I leave KVM on the laptop side for extended period I > have issues switching back

Re: How to recover when monitor goes blank.

2024-06-20 Thread Ram Ramesh
My Debian machines have Xfce. I configure Applications Menu -> Settings-> Power Manager -> Display -> Display power management -> Off. David This is not a dpms issue. This is the OS thinking that it is not attached to a monitor/KB.  I can remote login and remove dpms any time. Besides this

Re: How to recover when monitor goes blank.

2024-06-19 Thread David Christensen
On 6/19/24 13:45, Ram Ramesh wrote: Hi,   I have my monitor, keyboard and mouse shared through a KVM switch. One host is Linux Debian bookworm 12.5 and another is laptop running Windows 11. When I leave KVM on the laptop side for extended period I have issues switching back to Debian side. W