Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:19:19 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: headless server... Message-ID: <200506171419.j5HEJJ3q056960@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200506081102.j58B22jg019955@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > 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. :-) Now I had the chance to examine my VGA-RGB cable. It connects the following pins with each other and with the shiedling/case of the cable/connector: 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11. (That's the 4th pin in the top row, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th pin in the middle row, and the first pin in the bottom row.) When looking straight onto the plug (front) with the long side at top, the pins are numbered 1 to 5 in the top row, 6 to 10 in the middle row, and 11 to 15 in the bottom row, each left to right. The pin numbers are usually also etched into the plastic of the connector beside the pins (very small digits, so you have to look very closely). So you only need to buy a VGA plug at an electronics store (or cut the plug from a broken VGA cable), and connect the pins mentioned above with each other and with the metal case/shielding of the plug. Now when you insert this "dongle" into the VGA card, it should be indistinguishable from a real monitor. Well, at least for the BIOS. :-) 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. We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.
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