reset a VESA display

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Man-wai Chang wrote:
 > 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?

What kind of videeocard do you have?  The driver should be handling the
console restoration.  If its not, that's a bug.

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