Hello,
You are correct, that's all it does. And for $19 no problem.
Your sollution is also a real good one. Especially if you already
have a need for a KVM.
On May 10, 2006, at 7:23 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
Hi Dan. This is very interesting. If that's the case, then I bet
we could come up with a similar device home brew. Tell you what I
did though to get around the issue of no monitor. I use a home
brew switch unit which switches the keyboard and monitor between
the Mac and 3 PC's. Actually, it also switches serial ports, but
of course they don't exist on the Mac. Also I use a Blue Tooth
keboard most of the time. Anyway, all I did was modified the
switch so that the video sync lines go high when the switch is set
to divert the signal to the Mac. So, the monitor doesn't have to
be switched on, and things still works. The Mac still thinks it
has a monitor. So I bet that's all these little boxes do.
Certainly worth while, and a great tip.
On 10 May 2006, at 14:58, Dan Keys wrote:
Hello everyone,
A while back there was a bit of a discussion regarding problems
with the DVD player initializing. This was because no monitor was
connected to the Mac mini.
Recently I had an old CRT monitor go bad. This unit was connected
to my Mac mini.
So, I decided to purchase a DVI to Composite or SVGA adaptor.
This adapter is around $19 and on one end it has the DVI connecter
to plug into the Mac and on the other end is a box with an RCA
connecter and a SVGA connecter.
I accessed the Video preferences and pressed the Find Display
button and the computer selected the correct driver.
The nice thing about this little item is that the computer is now
happy because it thinks it really has a screen connected to it.
And it lets the DVD player work just fine.
While I realize that most people will want a real monitor, I just
thought I'd mention this just in case someone would like to use
this on a Mac mini instead of purchasing another monitor.
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