reset a VESA display

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 15:21, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> Is there a way to reset a VESA display card using console commands
> without rebooting the PC?

The easiest way I know of is to do a virtual terminal switch away and
back to X. ALT-CTRL-F1 to get away, and probably ALT-CTRL-F7 to get
back. That keeps the X server running and all your processes as well. If
this is not enough, CTRL-BACKSPACE restarts the X server - killing all
your X processes. This last one may be disabled in your X server config.

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