i > As I asked yesterday, I 'm interested in using VNC to control a > remote 'doze machine. I would like to ship it 'headless' without > monitor or keyboard. > > Is there a plug of some kind that I can use to 'fool' doze into > believing there is a monitor etc.
I do this on several boxes at work quite successfully, but it DOES depend on the bios on the particular machine. Generally, having a monitor not plugged in makes no difference. Many machines can have the bios set in "server"mode, which ignores the keyboard / mouse errors. For those that don't give you a mouse cursor even though it's in "server" mode, we hack apart a M$ mouse, plug it into the PS2 port and then tape the guts inside the case. Works quite well.... You can also create a "dummy" plug that will generate the required voltage levels for a keyboard - I have done this on an old AT motherboard (5 pin DIN type connection), and I assume that a PS/2 one would work the same. If I can dig my notes on this out of the pile of crap sitting in the study, I'll post them here. Jon -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WTC > /dev/null ; chmod +x /usr/bin/laden ; rm -rf /usr/bin/laden -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
