Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Rack mounted CPUs w/out Monitors Issue

2 possible solutions

Buy $25 EDID dongle emulator. 

Or

If using a Quadro GPU, you can configure it to emulate an EDID via Nvidia control panel. 

DQS

On Sep 21, 2021, at 3:39 PM, Mark Spano <cutandcover@gmail.com> wrote:



Not having much experience with Splashtop but in general, whatever a remote viewer sees is usually indicated by the Display Settings of the remote system. So if there is a change to the Display Settings on the PC (changing this from let's say 1280x1024 to 1920x1080), this will propagate to the viewer.

Sometimes you can not access different Display Settings, especially for headless systems, as the graphics card expects to see an actual display, and when it doesn't, just offers very basic options. But in configuring PC systems for Teradici remote control, I have been able under Windows 10 to set resolution according to what the graphics card supports for each display adapter, allowing for an NVidia 1080 Ti to output at least two 1920x1080 'screens' to my remote system, which show up at that resolution.

Hopefully it's as simple as that, and also something that, if you have access to one of the Splashtop systems, you can try by just going into the Display control panel and changing the resolution. Chances are, though, it will only support whatever you see as options there.

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 3:21 PM Benjamin Hershleder <Ben@contactben.com> wrote:

Hello L2 Hive Mind!

I'm trying to determine if:

1. I'm being snowed by the IT department.
2. There is a solution to what I will describe below.

THE SITUATION:

1. My school has 20 - 30 rack mounted PC CPUs running Media Composer and the Adobe Suite.
2. None of the rack systems have monitors connected to them.
3. Students connect to these systems remotely, using Splashtop, so they can learn the various apps.

THE ISSUES:

1. Within the Splashtop display window, the remote computer displays only what's about a 4 x 3 area as opposed to correctly displaying 16 x 9. Essentially a 4x3 Center Cut-out of the 16x9 (or wider) possible display area — so, there is dead space on either side of the 4x4 image: i.e. it's pillar-boxed.
2. The greatly reduced screen real estate makes using the systems less than pleasant.

WHAT I'M BEING TOLD:

There is no solution to this.

MY INSTINCT:

I have a hard time believing this is true. After all, it's 2021 and we have flying cars . . .

Thoughts?  Possible solutions?

Thanks in advance!

Benjamin

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Benjamin Hershleder
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