Headless Driver Problems

[Paul Nash]

Hi,

I am currently trying to build an XPe image which supports headless
operation. However when I add the "Headless VGA Driver - Hotfix Q835732" and
boot the image I still see output from the video port. I then removed the
Chips Video Driver I had as part of my configuration and then rebuilt and
tested the image. But again I was still seeing output.

How do I get the XPe image to run in headless mode? i.e. I want no video
output from the graphics card.

Thanks,

Paul Nash

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Hi Paul,

The most important question is what happens when you remove/disable your graphic adapter?
Does XPe boots? If it does then you don't have problem, unless you want to use headless support for some other purposes.

Best regards,
Slobodan

 

[Paul Nash]

Hi,

The graphics adapter is built onto the motherboard and I don't believe I can
disable it through the BIOS.

Maybe I am under the wrong impression about this Headless driver. Is it only
intended for systems with no graphics adapter installed? Or can it also be
used on systems including a graphics adapter to divert the video output to a
Virtual Display Device and thus display nothing out of the video port.

Thanks,

Paul

Hi Paul,

The most important question is what happens when you remove/disable your graphic adapter?
Does XPe boots? If it does then you don't have problem, unless you want to

use headless support for some other purposes.

 

[Andy Allred [MS]]

Headless implies no physical video adapter in the box. So in your case,
you don't need that component. You can unplug the monitor and you still
won't need the component.

The OS has a boot dependency on some type of video driver. If you had
no video adapter on the machine (or you had disabled it in the bios),
then this component would simply allow the OS to continue to boot by
adding the virtual display device.

So in essence, you're good to go without this component, just unplug
the monitor.