Problem when the remote display is off

[luckyluca]

Hi, I have Debian 12 installed on a minipc connected to the TV, and NoMachine server installed.

NoMachine works great as long as the TV is on and on the right minipc hdmi source.

However, the client doesn’t work well with the tv is off: it is very laggy unusable and cropped.

I found that shutting down lightdm and restarting NoMachine server works fine as it instigates the creation of a virtual desktop. ( as per https://kb.nomachine.com/AR03P00973 )

However, I’m unable to browse the pc locally using the tv ( no display ).

Is there a way to have lightdm running for local access and NoMachine running regardless whether the monitor is on or off?

thx!

[Britgirl]

Hi, take a look at the response I provided for https://forum.nomachine.com/topic/can-connect-but-screen-frozen#post-52625. The set-up is similar to yours. Does that help?

Another way to get round this limitation of the video card is to install an HDMI dongle (refer to the article) to force the system to take full advantage of the GPU as if a real monitor were connected. 🙂

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