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Re: Monitor standby



On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 05:31:55PM +0200, Arthur Buijs wrote:
| Thanks for looking into my problem.
| 
| I didn't startup X but I think Linux starts it as last part of te
| bootprocess.
| 
| When I turn on the PC and after all the messages have been displayed the
| monitor turns to stand-by mode (screen black and led turns from green to
| amber). If I then enter <ctrl><alt><F1-6> the monitor turns on again and
| I'm able to use a console. When I go to tty1 I can see the last line
| saying "Starting X display manager: xdm.".
| 
| I tried another monitor but with the same result.
| 
| Although I'm pretty sure I entered the right values for my video card
| and monitor there seems to be a problem with the configuration of X.
| Maybe someone uses a Diamond Stealth 3D 4000 video card and knows what
| values I should enter to solve the problem.

What does 
    ps -A | grep "[Xx]"
say?  Is xdm still running?  Is an X server running?

HTH,
-D



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