[2884] in RedHat Linux List
Re: redhat linux/X video modes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Tue Nov 5 22:55:51 1996
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 22:52:38 -0500
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From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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>5 minutes ago, just for the sake of argument (and experiment)
>I put a bad option in my /etc/XF86Config to make my screen go
>blank. Then I exited X and typed 'startx' while on TTY1.
>Startx script brought me to TTY7 (that's where X normally
>runs) and my screen went blank, and the light on my monitor
>changed to "standby". I did:
>
>1. Ctrl+Alt+F1 (to go back to TTY1)
>2. Ctrl+C
>3. pressed Ctrl+Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+F1
>4. waited 40 seconds. Nothing happened.
>5. Switched my monitor off and on.
>6. Screen unfroze and I had my "normal" TTY1.
my monitor is too old to have power saving mode, so that is
not possible.
Darron
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