monitor not returning from power saving mode Debian etch

[Jeffrey Watts]

How old is your monitor and your video card?  Sounds like a problem
with the power saving code.

I googled, and here's a set of posts that might help you:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t616183.html

J.

On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 3:02 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> 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.

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