[K12OSN] server without graphics card

[Bob Robnett]

The system requires a graphics card to start.  It will not pass the first
portion of the POST (Power On Self Test) without it.  Any graphics card will
do. You do not have to have a monitor hooked up to it, though.
Bob Robnett
Coordinator of Technology
Southern Kern Unified School District
661-256-5020  X1509
FAX 661-256-6880
rrobnett at skusd.k12.ca.us

  -----Original Message-----
  From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com]On
Behalf Of Krsnendu
  Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 4:33 PM
  To: ltsp-discuss at lists.sourceforge.net; k12osn at redhat.com
  Subject: [K12OSN] server without graphics card


  I have an Athlon 2500xp inside a regular tower case on MSI KT6 Delta
motherboard. Can I use this without a graphics card?



  I would rather use it only as a server not as a terminal as well. I had
the experience the other day that I was using the server machine directly as
a terminal and openoffice froze the machine and I had to reboot. Naturally
all the terminals went down. I am sure if I ran the program from another
terminal machine I could have restarted that machine and the other machines
connected to the server would have kept running.



  If I am not using the machine as a terminal do I need a graphics card. Are
there any tricks for getting it to start without it.



  I have been using an old  pci graphics until now just to get it going.






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