Inspite of my problems installing OS X on a the Village Tronic MPDD Pro video card, the card does offer one feature that I like: optional headless support.
You might wonder why this might be important feature to have on a video card for a server? I've run into this problem before -- you attach a large monitor to a server and set the resolution high. You then put the server in the rack, and maybe a year later you need to put a monitor on it. However, this time, the monitor is the one in your machine room and it doesn't support the high resolution of the first monitor, so you can't get your monitor to work. This can be a real pain to solve.
What this optional patch does detect if there is no monitor attached and then lower the resolution to broadly supported size. The next time you attach a monitor, it will use this lower size.
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