On 9/05/2023 11:38 am, Gary Mills wrote:
On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 08:17:42AM +1000, Carl Brewer wrote:
Three of them. Have been running OI since it was OS, oh, almost 20 years
now? One of my three is about that old too. Rock solid.
I found I had to use an HDMI "dummy" to get the newer ones to boot.
I wondered if an HDMI console was somehow special. The system I'm
using has only HDMI and Display Port connectors for a monitor. It has
no VGA connector.
I only found out after setting a new (2 years ago now) generic consumer
PC motherboard up as a server, doing all the setup etc on a bench with
an HDMI monitor, then popping it in a rack with a KVM switch and it
would not boot.
The KVM switch didn't provide enough info to the graphics port for it to
start cleanly. It would just hang.
I did write about it here on this list at the time, but the archive is
AWOL and I can't find my notes.
Quite annoying! Maybe someone on this list knows what sort of KVM
switch might provide enough for a HDMI card to behave at boot time? I
don't know the terminology, so search engines are not being kind! I'd
really like to be able to use one.
Carl
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