Cheers Wayne, I ordered one of these emulators from AliExpress, although may be a month or more before it turns up. May or may not have a use for it by then but was cheap enough. Regards, Bryce.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Rooney Sent: Friday, 21 September 2018 7:46 PM To: Canterbury Linux Users Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Linux-users] Headless Ubuntu 18.04.1 - connect to desktop from Windows? On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 02:12:57 Bryce Stenberg wrote: > However, if the machine is rebooted > without a monitor attached then VNC can't connect, It needs there to > be a monitor present. Once upon a time I installed Knoppmyth on a laptop. Couldn't get it to initialize the display properly, the whole screen would be compressed onto the left half of the laptop display. But when an external monitor was plugged in, it would boot to the laptop display just fine. So I made a vga monitor emulator, which was from memory three resistors and a wire link soldered into a 15 pin sub-din connector, which when left plugged into the laptop's vga port fooled it into thinking there was an external monitor plugged in, and it would boot fine. In these days of graphics card crypto-currency mining, monitor emulators seem to be readily available and may solve your problem of a monitor needing to be plugged in. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/TISHRIC-HDMI-VGA-15Pin-Dummy-Plug-Headless- Virtual-Ghost-Display-Emulator-Monitor-Adapter-1920x1080-60Hz- For/32877964142.html Cheers, Wayne _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
