Timeline for Does a USB Monitor require VGA Card?
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| Oct 13, 2019 at 8:06 | history | edited | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Mar 22, 2017 at 2:12 | history | suggested | Hashim Aziz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Edited as per http://meta.superuser.com/questions/12189/lets-fix-all-the-broken-images.
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| Feb 19, 2016 at 6:03 | history | edited | Jonny Henly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Pointless to say update 3 is coming soon, it's not. Edited some formatting things as well.
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| Apr 29, 2014 at 5:17 | comment | added | yo' |
Most linux systems have sshd running -- therefore you can completely control the computer over ssh. This is actually what many people do with their Arduino or RaspberryPi, for instance.
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| Apr 29, 2014 at 2:41 | comment | added | Aleksi Torhamo | @JonnyHenly I am not saying you shouldn't have posted it. Other parts of it are fine. If you had said at the beginning that "I'm assuming instead of 'does BIOS detect it?' you meant to ask 'can you get it to work with Linux?'", I wouldn't have said anything. I'm not writing this to pick a fight with you, I'm writing this to the person who comes later, reads the question and your answer and thinks he can get the BIOS settings to show on a USB monitor by installing drivers to Linux. It just doesn't work like that, but that person might not know that unless told explicitly. | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 2:24 | comment | added | Jonny Henly | @AleksiTohamo if you have better advice or an answer then post your advice/answer. | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 2:20 | comment | added | Jonny Henly | @AleksiTohamo I just realized what Update 2 was, "If I buy a PC without any type of graphics...", are you really arguing this question? It's fundamentally flawed, the OP's original question is "Does a USB Monitor require VGA Card?" Even if the BIOS detected the monitor what is he going to use it for? An $89.99(at the cheapest) paper weight? | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 1:57 | comment | added | Aleksi Torhamo | @JonnyHenly No matter what drivers he installs on Linux, if the BIOS itself doesn't detect the device, he won't be able to see bootup information or change BIOS settings using that device. Installing a driver to the OS doesn't magically make it work with BIOS. Also, I was wrong about the USB device class thing, apparently they added an audio/video device class two years ago. (I highly doubt any current BIOS has support for it though, and probably not many devices either, yet) | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 1:41 | comment | added | Jonny Henly | @AleksiTorhamo in response to your second comment, see [FIX-1] | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 1:36 | comment | added | Jonny Henly | @AleksiTorhamo In response to your first comment - "On the first start the BIOS will probably not know what to do with the device. But that doesn't mean all is lost." His question - "If I buy a PC without any VGA card, would the BIOS detect this kind of monitor at start?" His note - "Note: I'm a Linux user." I just used what he gave me, "Even on a computer without any operating system installed" - AleksiTohamo, I'm a Linux user carries the connotation of using Linux which is an Operating System | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 1:31 | comment | added | Aleksi Torhamo | @JonnyHenly You also made it sound (at least to my ear) like almost all motherboards come with integrated graphics cards. If I had to bet, I'd go with the opposite. You're right in that the BIOS itself should be capable of displaying things if you connect a normal graphics card (and monitor) to the motherboard. BIOS can support normal graphics cards because they identify themselves as such and provide a standard interface. USB keyboards also identify as keyboards and provide a standard interface. I'm pretty sure that there isn't a display device class in the USB standard, however. | |
| Apr 29, 2014 at 1:16 | comment | added | Aleksi Torhamo |
@JonnyHenly In your Second Question and Update 2 sections, you start talking about Linux drivers even though the question was about BIOS detection. Even on a computer without any operating system installed, you can see eg. the BIOS settings on your monitor if you have a normal graphics card; That's because BIOS itself detects the graphics card. The question was whether BIOS would detect a USB-connected display. (For example, some years ago you couldn't change BIOS settings with a USB keyboard because the BIOS wouldn't detect USB-connected keyboards. Nowadays this usually works.)
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| Apr 29, 2014 at 0:45 | comment | added | Jonny Henly | @slhck sorry about that, I didn't realize that edits bumped the post to the front page, won't happen again. | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 21:52 | comment | added | ntoskrnl | @DavidCary Certain servers don't even support video cards. For example this Sun Fire V240 I happen to have only supports a few specific cards which are difficult to find. In these cases the operating system is installed using the "lights-out management" interface over a serial console, and afterwards the server is typically accessed over SSH. | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 18:02 | comment | added | slhck | Please stop making trivial, formatting-only edits (like adding paragraphs, making things bold, etc.). This constantly bumps the post to the front page and distracts if there's no real content added. | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 17:47 | history | edited | Jonny Henly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2014 at 16:42 | comment | added | David Cary | @ChrisInEdmonton: I agree that it is possible to buy a PC without a GPU, and I agree that one must generally add a video card to such a PC in order to set up the PC. However, I see that some people build "headless servers"; after the server is all set up, they apparently find that server "usable" even after they pull out the video card. | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 14:52 | comment | added | Jonny Henly | @ChrisInEdmonton your right, that was written early on in my answer, I'll fix that | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 14:35 | comment | added | ChrisInEdmonton | "Any PC that you buy will have a graphics card, either integrated graphics or discrete graphics, or both." Not true. It's perfectly possible to buy a PC without a graphics card, and I routinely do so. They aren't usable until you add a GPU, but you may well purchase a PC without, and bring over your GPU from your old computer. | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 14:24 | history | edited | Jonny Henly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2014 at 13:27 | comment | added | Ruslan | @sinni800 I think it's just shortcut for "VGA-compatible cable/connector". | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 13:17 | history | edited | Jonny Henly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2014 at 12:46 | history | edited | Jonny Henly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2014 at 12:36 | comment | added | sinni800 | I can never get over how VGA is actually both a cable type and a standard that defines resolutions and frequencies for video transmission (up to 640x480)... While usually, over VGA-Cables, we transfer things like SVGA, WVGA or UXGA... all representing some sort of resolution. Just a tidbit, nothing wrong with your answer! | |
| Apr 28, 2014 at 11:34 | history | edited | Jonny Henly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2014 at 10:18 | comment | added | drerayo |
Umm.. I wrongly use VGA Card term, what I mean was Graphics Processing Unit
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| Apr 28, 2014 at 10:04 | history | edited | Jonny Henly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 28, 2014 at 8:50 | history | answered | Jonny Henly | CC BY-SA 3.0 |