Getting X to init corectly W/O a monitor conected

[Mark Haney]

stan wrote:
> I have a mcahine that lives in a rack. All the machines in tis rack share a
> common KVM. This is an older KVM ,ad does not provide the corect response
> to querying for things like monitor resolution, etc, when the machine doing
> the querying is not slected to the monitor/keyboard.

> 
> But it return errors, _and_ when I boot the machine without the monitor
> conected, and try to run this from the command line it does not work.
> 
> Whats the best way to address this issue?
> 
> 

Obligatory old school question.  What is wrong with killing X and using
the command line?  I mean, do you run remote X sessions from SSH to
manage the system instead of just learning the CLI?

If it's in a rack connected to a KVM, how often will you actually access
the box from the KVM compared to a good old SSH session?

Granted, this doesn't fix your problem, but it just amazes me that X
just /has/ to be running even for konsole or yakuake sessions.

Sigh.


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Mark Haney
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