reset a VESA display

[Man-wai Chang]

> 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.

Sad that when my VESA display was alternating between SLEEP and WAKE-UP 
modes (that is, having problem), I was not running X. I could not see 
anything on the monitor. It was locked at /dev/tty1, console mode. I 
could still remotely login via ssh.

Next time, I might try logging in blindly and startx.... but was there 
no command to do a video card reset?

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