On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, David wrote: > I've lost my screen (RH6) and suspect a dead video card. Is there a way of > checking remotely whether it's that or something else? All processes seem > to be working ok, and I don't really want to re-boot if I can avoid it.
Sometimes unloading & reloading of hardware modules can achieve something close to a reset. It's worked for me a number of times with network cards. At the very least it should let you know whether the kernel can talk to the device, possibly in /var/log/messages. On the other hand, there may be issues with trying to remove a module that's in use. Maybe kill off the 'tty' processes (including commenting out of /etc/inittab) to cure that. -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
