sounds kind of like the older windows machines where they wouldn't
boot up unless a monitor and keyboard were connected even if you
turned the monitor off. take care, max
On Jun 28, 2010, at 6:02 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
It's true,
I have my mini hooked up to my TV. When my TV is turned off the Mac
still tells me the brand and resolution of my TV.
On Jun 28, 2010, at 6:35 PM, Chris Moore wrote:
I am a bit confused here, another group member on here (Chris G?)
said earlier he has a mac mini and has a monitor plugged into it,
but never turns the monitor on. So how can the mac detect what
resolution the monitor is if it is switched off?
agree though for not much more you can have a Macbook with the
lovely gesture trackpad. I managed to get the Macbook aluminium 13
inch before they put the price up and turned it into a Macbook Pro.
On 28 Jun 2010, at 22:44, Bryan Smart wrote:
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
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From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@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?
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