Yes, you do need a monitor and no, it does not need to be on. Until I can get a vga cable I'm stuck, I just wanted to add this to the never-ending contraversy surrounding running a mac with no screen.
On 11/25/12, Jesus Garcia <jesusga...@gmail.com> wrote: > No the cable alone is not sufficient the machine needs to see a monitor at > the other end of the connection. However it does not have to be turned on > so > far as I have been able to determine. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Arrigo > Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 19:06 > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: a note on running a Mini with no monitor > > With the older minis, there was an adapter you could get that allowed the > mini's dvi port to connect to a regular TV. If this adapter was connected, > the mini would work fine. That doesn't work on the newer minis though. > Depending on what mini you have, it probably has a mini display port, and > either a mini dvi port or HDMI port. With these, the only way I have found > to make this work is to connect a monitor of some kind, I don't think just > the cable is sufficient, I could be wrong there though. > On Nov 25, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I am way too nice and let a friend have my vga cable. I now have no > monitor hooked up to my Mini, which is running 10.8.2, and said mini would > be glaring at me if it could. It is slow to do just about everything, and > nothing is running now that was not running when I shut down a couple days > ago. So, for me at least, a monitor is indeed essential. Now I just have to > pray for a vga cable to fall out of the sky... >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
