This doesn't exactly involve the video driver. The driver for your video card is fine. It just can't find an attached monitor, so can't report to OS X what display resolutions are available on it.
I don't think that a dummy driver is likely. On the Mac, you don't select video drivers. If your card is supported, the OS uses it, if not, well it doesn't. The driver for the card detects the monitor. I don't even know how Apple would go about allowing you to select some custom driver. They go out of their way to prevent people from having to select and/or manage drivers. So, making any change like that wouldn't be a simple fix. They'd have to add some new screens and options to the Display preferences, probably, and that can't be undertaken without a lot of departments becoming involved. Since the problem only affects a very few users, and those users have a very inexpensive solution (plug in a monitor), I don't think that they'll spend money and time on changing it. Really, you people that want a portable, need a MacBook. They're around $1,000, which is what you'd pay after upgrading a Mini, anyway. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Frank Carmickle Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 9:45 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Using a Mac Mini without a monitor Hello Bryan On Jun 28, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Bryan Smart wrote: > Because apps like Safari decide how much information that they can show at > once based on the current display resolution. The Mac determines the > available screen resolutions by determining the type of monitor that is > connected. When no monitor is connected, no screen resolution is defined, and > so any program that depends on screen resolution will go wacko, as it thinks > you have a screen with size 0. Can't fit a lot of information on a screen > with size 0. Most programmers never test for that situation, because they > can't test without some sort of monitor connected. Apple could fix Safari, > but that's just one program among many that will go bonkers with a size 0 > screen. > You are absolutely correct. I thought that Apple could just implement a dummy video driver that one could set their own parameters. Do you see any reason why this wouldn't work? --FC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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 macvisionar...@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.
