Chapter 3: Common Technical Problems: Trouble Shooting

Section 3.1: No Response: No Window or Dark Screen

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Subsection 3.1.1

Technical Problems

No power on terminal or screen: any light indicating activity?

Fuse blown somewhere in room/building power supply?

Wrong adjustment of brightness or contrast?

Subsection 3.1.2

Configuration Problems

On PC: wrong video mode?
On X-Windows: access problem?

UNIX and PC/Mac X-Windows servers might offer a pull-down menu to add the host of interest. On UNIX, however, the de-protection is performed with the command

NOTE: The use of the command 'xhost +' is a potential security problem, since this allows any host in the world to send you a window. Therefore, you should better add only the host of interest.

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