Trip Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 (edited) is there any easy way to boot the computer without a monitor attached ? its sooo annoying it doesnt. Edited September 17, 2010 by Trip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learnaseyego Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 (edited) Hello, are you trying to use the computer as a file server only or something? If you are getting an error when trying to load without the monitor pluged into the graphics card, try removing the card all together then try loading. If ubuntu does not load the card for use maybe that will bypass the problem, but Im not too sure. If you give that a try let us know if it works. Good luck! Edited September 17, 2010 by Learnaseyego Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learnaseyego Posted September 17, 2010 Share Posted September 17, 2010 Not really sure how much effort you are willing to put into this project, but I did come across this if you want to give it a try. http://www.monowall.procad.sk/boot_without_monitor.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted September 17, 2010 Author Share Posted September 17, 2010 (edited) i've spent a considerable amount of time googling it but to no avail ill try removing the graphics card but im pretty sure it'll hang @ exactly the same place i've tried this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1223504 and also editing grub to "nomodeset" but nothing seems to work its a security camera server installed on ubuntu desktop ... im beginning to think about installing the server edition Edited September 17, 2010 by Trip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted September 17, 2010 Author Share Posted September 17, 2010 it works !! kind of a temporary work around b/c now i cant vnc in im going to double check my firewall settings amazing tip btw ... the board has onboard graphics but i was using the agp slot and removing the card with agp still set in the bios seems to work for some reason lol :D thanks dude im so grateful ! will report back about the firewall & vnc ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted September 17, 2010 Author Share Posted September 17, 2010 k it was my fault had the auth connections thing checked :D now it works fine but in 640 x 480 need to fix this now lol .... getting there tho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BattZ Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 What cameras you using? I'm thinking about doing a camera in my baby's room, and one at the front door so I know when to not answer it =P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Learnaseyego Posted September 18, 2010 Share Posted September 18, 2010 (edited) Good to hear its working for you now!.. If you figure out the resolution problem be sure to let us know the fix. :) Edited September 18, 2010 by Learnaseyego Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted September 18, 2010 Author Share Posted September 18, 2010 What cameras you using? I'm thinking about doing a camera in my baby's room, and one at the front door so I know when to not answer it =P. any ip based cameras work best with zoneminder ... there's a list of compatible cameras on their site http://www.zoneminder.com/ if you want to easily know how to install this to ubuntu check this thread .... http://www.hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=17570 dont install zoneminder if you are also running lampp ... or change the port that lampp uses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted September 18, 2010 Author Share Posted September 18, 2010 Good to hear its working for you now!.. If you figure out the resolution problem be sure to let us know the fix. :) yeah or another fix for booting without the monitor i tried loads of stuff but ended up having to keep recovering the xorg.conf on another pc ... i gave up .... ill come back to it though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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