At 6:27 PM 3/28/97, Dan Jacobowitz wrote:
>On Fri, 28 Mar 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
>> > BTW I have another question.  To boot 'headless' requires shorting out
>> > pins 4 and 11 in the monitor port....but will a monitor still work after I
>> > short them out if I need to use one at some point?
>>
>> ?? Yes. All that shorting does is fake the computer into thinking there's
>> a certain type of monitor connected. If you later connect that type of
>> monitor, all is well. It's not good if you try to attach a different
>> type of monitor. :-(
>>
>The problem here is, what kind of monitor does it think?  I have a NEC VGA
>connected to a VGA-Mac adapter....will this work?  And All I have to do to
>short it out is to stick a paperclip into those two holes and turn the
>machine on, right?

Actually you are already all set.  The VGA/Mac adapter does the shorting
for you.  Just unplug the monitor and leave the adapter in place.

This is really a good *general* solution because the adapters usually allow
you to set what resolution, etc. you want to use.  If you have a Mac
monitor and two Mac's then buy an adapter for the other computer, set it to
the kind of Mac monitor you really have, and use it to fool whichever
computer doesn't have the monitor on it.  Then you can trade whenever you
want.

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