[K12OSN] server without graphics card

[jim phillips]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 16:33, Brian Chase wrote:
> Leave the graphics card in, and put a old small display on it for 
> emergency console access is my advice.

> I'd get it into another locked room where nobody's tempted to sit down 
> at it or bump the power switch.
> 
> Krsnendu wrote:
> 
> > I have an Athlon 2500xp inside a regular tower case on MSI KT6 Delta 
> > motherboard. Can I use this without a graphics card?
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> > 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.
Maybe you could have gone to a client and logged in as root to kill oo?
>  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.
> >
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> > 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.
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> > I have been using an old  pci graphics until now just to get it going.
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