8.10 Booting with No Monitor attached/Xorg

[Frumpco]

Hello All

I did a fresh install on my Atom machine and want to use it as a headless unit like I was when it had 8.04. Everything boots up fine with a monitor attached but not when there isn't. I get Xorg errros saying that it can not find the device

Here is a print out of the file

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "Files"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "extmod"
Load "dbe"
Load "dri"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
#DisplaySize 280 210 # mm
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "DEL"
ModelName "DELL 828FI"
HorizSync 30.0 - 70.0
VertRefresh 50.0 - 120.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
#Option "PageFlip" # [<bool>]
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "intel"
VendorName "Intel Corporation"
BoardName "82945G/GZ Integrated Graphics Controller"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

Thanks for the help!

[atroxes]

I have the same problem on a machine sporting a G35 chipset. No trouble what so ever with 8.04.1, and now after the 8.10 upgrade, Ubuntu tries to detect a screen and refuses to start X(gnome) when I don't have a monitor attached.

I'm wanting to have a headless box, and pre-8.10 i configured it so that it auto-logins into gnome (yeye insecure, but the machine only has power and network connected to it) and that worked wonders because vino-server started upon auto-login and i could remote the box like any windows machine.

Now with 8.10 i get a fancy (EE) No devices detected" message like the OP.

[Frumpco]

"(EE) No devices detected" is also one of the Xorg errors that I get as well

[Alden born]

i'm having the same problem there there appears to be no fix.... witch it does not make sense.

here is the link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1016493