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michaelslarsen
May 4th, 2010, 03:14 AM
I have an Dell 755, and I have installed Ubuntu 10.4 desktop on it, everything works fine. I have it auto login, and run Azureus/Vuse at startup (so it can be a headless Bit Torrent server), it works perfectly. As soon as I try to go headless (no keyboard/mouse/monitor) the machine boots fine (I can SSH / FreeNX to the machine) but none of the GUI/apps load. What I think is happening is that when it boots without a monitor attached it does not load any of the X11 stuff. I need it to. It worked in Ubuntu 9.04 just fine, but now with 10.4 it is a no-go. Does anyone know how to force the X11/GUI to load when there are no monitors/hardware attached? This is the one thing standing in my was of getting Windows out of my house.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Revelator7MD
May 4th, 2010, 08:13 PM
Take a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting. In my case, I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.4 on a headless machine, but then VNC with GDM stopped working. Suspecting GDM wasn't loading properly, I followed https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting, where I ran the command:


echo options radeon modeset=0 > /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf(in my case I have a Radeon card)
then rebooted. Worked! :grin: