From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 8 15:19:44 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 853BF16A41C for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:19:44 +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 E33FD43D49 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 15:19:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (vmzsxe@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j58FJfdW030695 for ; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:19:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j58FJfDJ030694; Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:19:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 17:19:41 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200506081519.j58FJfDJ030694@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <42A70762.6000502@o2.pl> 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 15:19:44 -0000 Przemys?aw Nowaczyk wrote: > Erich Dollansky wrote: > > Did you try to run it with the cable plugged in but no monitor at the > > other end? > > yes.. it didn't start :( Is that a VGA-to-VGA cable, or a VGA-to-RGB/coax cable? There's a slight chance that the latter might work better, because it should terminate the ID pins on the VGA side. Other than that, I agree with Erich that this mainboard is particularly perverse and not the right choice for a head- less server. You should get a better mainboard. 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. "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925