Display Issues

Last night I needed some bandwidth (I only have ISDN at home) so I decided to take the Mini on it's first outing. I grabbed the biggest laptop case I had and piled the Mini, ac brick, keyboard, mouse, etc. into it. It wasn't too bad, but I wouldn't want to regularly cart the thing around. I suppose if one wanted to move it between two places, you could duplicate all the peripherals. (at some point it makes more sense just to get an ibook though)

Anyway, I connected it up to the 21" in monitor in a drop in work area at the local Sun office and fired it up. I didn't get any display, and the monitor was indicating it was out of scan range. Not a big deal I assumed, it probably was trying to do 1600x1200 @ 85hz and maybe this monitor didn't handle it. So I tried a PRAM reset, a PMU reset, booting in safe mode, booting in single user mode, etc. None of this worked I could not get anything on the display. I even booted the Ubuntu Linux install CD and couldn't get anything from it either. I returned home and everything worked fine. Luckily I had taken my iBook along and used that to do the downloads I needed.

I am hoping there is magic key sequence that tells the mini to use minimal display resoution during boot, but I sure can't find it.