Mark Wendt wrote: > On 01/09/2012 10:52 AM, Kent A. Reed wrote: > >> On 1/9/2012 9:57 AM, Les Newell wrote: >> >> >>> Some kernel mode display drivers can make X fail to start if they don't >>> find a monitor. See this page >>> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting> so see how to turn off KMS >>> for your driver. You will have to create an xorg.conf to manually >>> specify the driver and monitor. >>> >>> I had to do this for my headless network server. >>> >>> Les >>> >>> >>> >> Les: >> >> Maybe I'm just being thick this morning, but why would I want to start >> an X11-server on a machine lacking a monitor? >> >> Regards, >> Kent >> >> > You need to have some flavor of X if you want to display Axis on the > remote machine. If you're not running EMC2 and/or don't need Axis, then > obviously you don't need it. I was assuming you wanted to start up > EMC2, and run Axis on a remote machine. > No, it is much broader than that. If X is not running on the server machine, then any client that wants to use ANY X program on the server will not be able to make an X connection. You would be able to make ssh connections with a terminal window and use any command-line program, and use any TCP program, but not anything that worked by an X session.
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