11 Jun
2009
11 Jun
'09
2:23 p.m.
Kirn Gill wrote:
Graphics hardware on a server becomes useful if the
server needs to be
fixed.
Though my idea of "graphics hardware" is a cheap VGA monitor and VESA
text mode.
Some of those VESA advanced text modes are nice.
132x60 is nice on a 21" display.
It's also good for debugging.
Otherwise, servers need no display, and should have no display.
Not really. A serial console satisfies all those requirements. It also
has another advantage. It's much easier to debug problems with a
console itself when that console isn't a graphical one, with all the OS
drivers, framebuffer chips, and other cruft that a graphical console brings.
Peace... Sridhar