On 6/2/25 11:27, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Mon Jun 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM BST, Titus Newswanger wrote:
In that case, if original poster's mini-pc won't boot without HDMI
monitor, maybe like others suggested, a dummy connector. A search on
places like Amazon for "HDMI dummy plug" finds a lot of options. To
be honest, I had not realized such an item existed.
I think the demand for them is driven by folks who wanted to use
consumer GPUs for bitcoin mining.
That's something that has not been on my radar, my interests include cnc
machining and 3d printing. And I use a lot of bananapi-m5's which
wouldn't boot the latest Debian for arm64's 2 or 3 years ago. But the
desktop version of jammy did. I haven't tried to cold boot with the
monitor powered down but I can reboot and watch klipper on it anywhere
else on my home net, with its 1920x1040 hdmi powered down. My printers
are not consumer grade by around $2000/copy, both bigger and 10x
faster. Arm64 stuff drives them nicely. Since this is OT for this
list, details on request, PM me while I'm still breathing.
Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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