On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 12:24 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: > I do remember now that some older Mac G4 towers we used (running Mac OS X > server) had a similar headless problem and plugging the DVI to VGA adapter in > the back sorted it. I had forgotten about that so it might be the answer as > the discussions on those links suggest.
Ah, yes. You've reminded me as well. Some time ago, my company operated a Mac running MacOS 9. It had two special peripherals: a DVI-VGA dongle to make it boot, and a small device on the power cable. That device had a USB cable, connected to the same Mac. If the Mac locked up, apparently detectable by some kind of USB activity, it would cycle the power. Regards, Tyler -- "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love", by Robert A. Heinlein -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
