On July 13, Robert Schaefer wrote:
> >It also complains about the gfx card, (possibly because there's no
> >monitor hooked up), short of removing the card, can I at least stop the
> >VAX complaining about it? There's an SRM var on the DEC 3000 to do
> >that.
> 
> No way that I know of, aside from hacking up a 75 ohm terminator for it.
> I'd hate to waste a 3W3 cable on that though, and to buy the connectors and
> shell would be $$$.  VMS'll complain about the wrong PAKs if you try and
> boot it with the framebuffer removed, if you're lucky enough to have any.

  Now, wait a minute.  A framebuffer with pure-analog outputs can't tell
if there's a monitor connected.  Unless, of course, they're doing SWR
measurements to see if there's a reflection due to impedance mismatch
and triggering the "no monitor" alarm with the SWR exceeds a certain
threshold, which frankly I don't see happenening.

        -Dave

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