[geeks] Unusual Problem with KVM

Mike F lists at ibrew.net
Fri Jan 11 12:26:08 CST 2008


OK, so Windows is putting the monitor  to sleep, therefore no video  
signal on that machine's cable, and the KVM thinks nothing is there.  
Could you simply disable the screensaver in Windows? Set screensaver  
to none, and under under "Power..." set turn off monitor to never.

- Mike

On Jan 11, 2008, at 12:59 PM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
>>>> Can you enable wake-on-LAN and ping it?
>>> How would I go about that?  Remember that the machine isn't actually
>>> asleep.  It has just turned the monitor off.
>>
>> ssh into it and tell it to wake up the screen?
>
> The machine has SSH (and VNC for that matter), but I don't know how to
> tell Windows to wake itself up.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
> _______________________________________________
> GEEKS:  http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/geeks



More information about the geeks mailing list