<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 9:05 PM, David McGlone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@dmcentral.net">david@dmcentral.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Today I was editing a photo in the Gimp, and my monitor completely shut off. I<br>
couldn't use any keys on my keyboard to switch to a console nor could I use<br>
ctrl+alt+del to reboot the computer. All I could do was do a hard reset using<br>
the power button.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Probably a stupid question, but ...<br><br>How do you know you couldn't switch to a console if your monitor was off?<br><br>And have you used Ctrl-Alt-Del before with the monitor off, so you know all the keystrokes?<br>
<br>The reason I ask, is I had a monitor that turned off when the screensaver came on. And turning the monitor off and on didn't do anything. So I learned the keystrokes for Ctrl-Alt-Del, so I could try Logout, Suspend, etc. Pretty much all of them worked for me to get the monitor back on.</div>
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