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Scrambled ARD display on headless servers

By chaoswarriorx » Posted on May 13, 2007 - 12:32pm

Now granted, these are Live TV production servers (Quad-Core Xenons) that should basically never get cycled anyway, but we are in the throws on installation and it happens. Point being, they are all headless (not even a KVM – it’s not my spec!) and after each restart, all you can see via ARD is a scrambled bunch lines…

Plugging in any monitor (not just an adapter tho) instantly whips ARD into shape, but this is a bit of a pain…

I looked at ScreenUtil, but I’m not sure if this will work w/out a physical monitor attached, and today they are actually doing live tv with these servers, so it’s not the best time to experiment…

Thus 2 questions:

WHY?

What to do?

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Re: Scrambled ARD display on headless servers
Adam Knight on May 13, 2007 - 1:47pm
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Why? ARD sucks in so many ways…

Try restarting ARD with the kickstart command (search the site) and see if that helps you. If not, plug in a display and then set the resolution to 1024×768@32b and then unplug the display and restart the unit and see if that does anything for you.

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