Re: [ddccontrol-users] wake up a sleeping monitor remotely

[Nicolas B. <ni...@bo...>]

Hi,

On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 16:43 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote:
> 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"?

Have you tried:
# xset dpms force on

Should work, if the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly.

Best regards,

Nicolas