🚀 go-pugleaf

>Why do you want to turn off the video anyway? With no Sun keyboard connected
>the default console device is the serial port, not the built-in framebuffer.

>You can even force the machine to always use a serial console device by
>modifying the 'input-device' and 'output-device' settings in the NVRAM so
>they both say 'ttya' or 'ttyb' depending which port you want to use. Note
>that you need an adaptor cable since the IPC's and IPX's used 8-pin miniDIN
>connectors for the serial ports.
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Yes, I'm currently doing this (I've been running the IPC "headless" for
about a year). However, if there was actually such a jumper on the
motherboard, and such options were already available via the NVRAM, why
was the jumper there? Did it actually "turn off" the chip, i.e. not send
power to that part of the motherboard? If so, the advantage there is
that the machine isn't wasting power/cycles/heat/whatever.

As I was already running headless, I thought I could make the change
even more permanent by moving the jumper. However, since the pins don't
even exist on the board, it's kinda pointless now, but I was curious as
to why the jumper/pins appear in the FEH, but not in my IPC.

TTYL
Brian C.  <--- techrat@NOSPAM_vm.com
http://www.obsolyte.com