From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 11:02:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4BA16A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:02:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21DCC43D58 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 11:02:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (inaxyd@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j58B222G019956 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:02:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j58B22jg019955; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:02:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 13:02:02 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200506081102.j58B22jg019955@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200506081056.j58AuMlR019846@lurza.secnetix.de> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-chat User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: headless server... X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 11:02:04 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: > 2. What if you only connect a monitor plug or cable, but > no actual monitor? I forgot to mention: A standard 15pin VGA connector has three ID pins (11, 12 and 4, I think). If all else fails, it might help to connect some or all of them to ground. However, be very careful with this. Don't complain to me if you fry your hardware. :-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. Passwords are like underwear. You don't share them, you don't hang them on your monitor or under your keyboard, you don't email them, or put them on a web site, and you must change them very often.