Monitor goes to sleep and will not wake

[John Arends]

I do have a screen saver active, but the screen saver settings page 
doesn't mention anything about power settings. In the power settings 
control panel I asked that the machine never sleep.

Murali Shanker wrote:
> Actually, I haven't figured out why yet. In my case, it is a laptop, and
> I think it is the screen saver power settings that is putting the
> display off. Do you have screen saver enabled in yours?
> 
> Murali
> On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 14:08 -0500, John Arends wrote:
>> Murali,
>>
>> Your suggestion did indeed work and brought me back to my desktop.
>>
>> Any ideas on how I can fix this so I don't have to go through that each 
>> time?
>>
>> -John
>>
>> Murali Shanker wrote:
>>> Try Ctl-Alt-F1, followed by Ctl-Alt-F7. 
>>>
>>> Murali