GoatFoo

I wanted to try sunshine/moonshine, but when I tried connecting, the screen was just black and flickering.

Took me a while to figure out why. I have my workstation and gaming station connected through a KVM (AVAccess 8KSW21DP-DM). If the gaming station is not the active one, there is "no" output device. There must be a way.

#hardwarequirks

Jan 3, 2025 at 4:49pmWeb
Show threadkajer :unlocated:Jan 3, 2025

@GoatFoo

The startup I work at was using EDID emulator plugs on the GPUs in the supermicro servers because some software thing they used needed it? Using that emulator caused the OS / kernel to display getty on that rather than the built-in VGA which the IPMI used. To login to the console via IPMI, one had to reboot, catch the bios, disable the GPUs PCIe slot, boot the OS, and then troubleshoot anything that wasn't GPU related.

I installed headless drivers on one box, set the display priority to VGA, and guess what? The software ran fine w/o an EDID emulator, and console could be accessed via IPMI. 🤦‍♂️

The joys in being a sysadmin at a startup... ugh.