[ddccontrol-users] wake up a sleeping monitor remotely

[Florin A. <fl...@an...>]

One of the monitors I'm testing with ddccontrol is in a remote location,
attached to a system running Fedora Core 4 in runlevel 5. Nobody is
logged in, so gdm turns off the monitor after a while. I log in via ssh.

Because the monitor is sleeping, sometimes ddccontrol fails to query the
monitor. I have to reboot the system in order to wake up the monitor,
which is inconvenient, because the system is rather slow and it has a
SCSI controller that performs a fairly long initialization.

So, I wonder, is there an easier method to wake up the monitor without
rebooting the whole thing?
Kill X? (based on the fact that it's in inittab and will get restarted)
Any other method that's less "brutal"?

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/