Apple 23" Cinema Display Alive But Blank

I seem to be experiencing a very odd problem with the cinema HD display attached to my PowerMac G5. The machine itself boots up fine. I can ssh into it remotely and use it. But the display remains black, and no amount of hitting the power button on the side gives any response.
The monitor is powered up and being detected by the graphics card. X under GNU/Linux can read it:
(II) NV(0): Probing for EDID on I2C bus A...
(II) NV(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
(--) NV(0): DDC detected a DFP:
(II) NV(0): Manufacturer: APP Model: 9223 Serial#: 41997779
(II) NV(0): Year: 2006 Week: 8
(II) NV(0): EDID Version: 1.3
(II) NV(0): Digital Display Input
(II) NV(0): Max Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 49 vert.: 31
(II) NV(0): Gamma: 2.20
(II) NV(0): DPMS capabilities: Off
(II) NV(0): Supported color encodings: RGB 4:4:4 YCrCb 4:4:4
(II) NV(0): Default color space is primary color space
(II) NV(0): First detailed timing is preferred mode
(II) NV(0): redX: 0.640 redY: 0.343 greenX: 0.292 greenY: 0.618
(II) NV(0): blueX: 0.146 blueY: 0.074 whiteX: 0.313 whiteY: 0.329
(II) NV(0): Manufacturer's mask: 0
(II) NV(0): Supported Future Video Modes:
(II) NV(0): #0: hsize: 1920 vsize 1200 refresh: 60 vid: 209
(II) NV(0): Supported additional Video Mode:
(II) NV(0): clock: 154.0 MHz Image Size: 495 x 310 mm
(II) NV(0): h_active: 1920 h_sync: 1968 hsyncend 2000 hblankend 2080 h_border: 0
(II) NV(0): v_active: 1200 v_sync: 1203 vsyncend 1209 v_blanking: 1235 v_border: 0
(II) NV(0): Serial No: 2A6083MAUG0
(II) NV(0): Monitor name: Cinema HD
So everything appears to be working as normal -- except I can't see anything. If I plug the display into my PowerBook, it's detected by Mac OS X too and I configure resolutions, mirroring, etc. But the display is black.
This started happening when I tried to move the monitor from being plugged into the mains directly to being plugged into the surge-only socket on my UPS. Before that, it was working fine. It has run fine off the UPS before, but now it seems to have got confused into not waking up (that's the best way I can describe it, it seems to be sleeping).
I've tried most things I can think of, including booting MacOS from the CD and resetting the PRAM, and am now at a loss. It doesn't seem to be a power issue because the monitor is responding to probes from the graphics cards in the PowerBook and PowerMac.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
The graphics card is a NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT FWIW, purchased as part of the PowerMac and HD display back in summer 2006.

Have a similar problem, display won't work with the G5. Can get it going on my MacBook Pro, if and only if, I unplug the the power from the brick, then restart MacBook and only plug in the power when the MacBook is up and running. It then works fine, but if it goes to sleep or you press the on/off button if goes blank again. Yet to get it working on the G5. Any ideas?

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