I am a bit confused here, another group member on here (Chris G?) said earlier he has a mac mini and has a monitor plugged into it, but never turns the monitor on. So how can the mac detect what resolution the monitor is if it is switched off?
agree though for not much more you can have a Macbook with the lovely gesture trackpad. I managed to get the Macbook aluminium 13 inch before they put the price up and turned it into a Macbook Pro. On 28 Jun 2010, at 22:44, Bryan Smart wrote: > This doesn't exactly involve the video driver. The driver for your video card > is fine. It just can't find an attached monitor, so can't report to OS X what > display resolutions are available on it. > > I don't think that a dummy driver is likely. On the Mac, you don't select > video drivers. If your card is supported, the OS uses it, if not, well it > doesn't. The driver for the card detects the monitor. I don't even know how > Apple would go about allowing you to select some custom driver. They go out > of their way to prevent people from having to select and/or manage drivers. > So, making any change like that wouldn't be a simple fix. They'd have to add > some new screens and options to the Display preferences, probably, and that > can't be undertaken without a lot of departments becoming involved. Since the > problem only affects a very few users, and those users have a very > inexpensive solution (plug in a monitor), I don't think that they'll spend > money and time on changing it. > > Really, you people that want a portable, need a MacBook. They're around > $1,000, which is what you'd pay after upgrading a Mini, anyway. > > Bryan > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Frank Carmickle > Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 9:45 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Using a Mac Mini without a monitor > > Hello Bryan > > On Jun 28, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Bryan Smart wrote: > >> Because apps like Safari decide how much information that they can show at >> once based on the current display resolution. The Mac determines the >> available screen resolutions by determining the type of monitor that is >> connected. When no monitor is connected, no screen resolution is defined, >> and so any program that depends on screen resolution will go wacko, as it >> thinks you have a screen with size 0. Can't fit a lot of information on a >> screen with size 0. Most programmers never test for that situation, because >> they can't test without some sort of monitor connected. Apple could fix >> Safari, but that's just one program among many that will go bonkers with a >> size 0 screen. >> > You are absolutely correct. I thought that Apple could just implement a > dummy video driver that one could set their own parameters. Do you see any > reason why this wouldn't work? > > --FC > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
