[GRLUG] Monitor Sleeping, Sorry, My first Post...Ever

[Raymond McLaughlin]

john-thomas richards wrote:
 > I forgot about the CRT on the lone Windows machine (for games) I have.
> :-)  The bad news is that swapping monitors gives the same results,
> though this time the monitor has a message about shutting down in five
> seconds (definitely a monitor message, not from the OS).  I am stumped.


It sounds like you can get into BIOS. Is there a setting for display
type (VGA/CGA etc)?

If you really want to you can try to ssh in and see what's what:

-While on a network let knoppix boot. If you have speakers you should
  hear "Initiating startup sequence" when it's about ready
-Do <Ctrl><Alt><F1> and press <Enter>. Even if you can't see it, you
  are at a root console.
-Type "/etc/init.d/ssh start <Enter>" (It ought be ".../sshd start"
  but on Knoppix it isn't.)
-Then type "passwd" <Enter>" and type in a trivial password
  such as "12345<Enter>", twice.
-Find the IP address of the target box, and exercise I'll leave to you.
-From another box on the network "ssh root at knoppix"
    Welcome to Knoppix!
    root at Knoppix:~#
All this assumes that the machine is working except for the video.
Working blind like this is weird, and if you fumble you might need to
reboot. If you get it working, and can't fix the video, you might still
have a pretty good headless server or router. :)

At least it's an interesting problem!
Raymond McLaughlin