On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:01:49 +1030, Tim wrote:
[...]
> I didn't mean to imply that I was going to install
> telnet-server.
Actually, you do. Since without it, there'd be no way to telnet into
the box and do that. It's the telnet server that gives you a command
line interface when you telnet into the box.
Then I won't telnet into the box. After all, I never have.
On the other hand, you don't have to remotely access a box to
reconfigure the display, you can do that on the box, itself. Just CTRL
+ALT+F1 and you're at a text-only terminal that ought to work on just
about every graphics chipset. No rebooting or changing run levels
required. Though, once you're in that text interface, you can change
run levels, if you want to or need to. e.g. To kick some services back
into life after a reconfig.
Maybe. When this thing doesn't like a machine's setting, it says
"out of range" for a dozen or two seconds -- and goes clear dead black,
just as if the machine were shut clear down.
If it does it again, I'll try Ctrl-Alt-F1; but I'll make a small
wager it fails.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.