monitor not returning from power saving mode Debian etch

[Jonathan Hutchins]

On Friday 11 July 2008 03:02:12 pm David Nicol wrote:
> The situation is as follows:

> The monitor displays POST, then LILO, then booting, but somewhere in
> the init process the monitor shuts off and remains off until it wakes
> up on shutdown -r now, at which point one can switch between virtual
> consoles and see the messages that root has echoed to for instance
> /dev/tty4.

> Any ideas?  It's not a wiring problem.

Clearly.

Have you tried appending nofb or vga=normal to the boot command?

Are you booting to X or console?