reset a VESA display

[Ken Leyba]

Another way would be to go to run level 3 and back up to run level 5.

Ken

On 9/20/05, Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:
> 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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