Thanks so much. You are a life saver. Works perfectly now.
Loïc
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:08 PM, DRC <[email protected]> wrote:
> VirtualGL has to connect to :0 in order to access the 3D graphics card.
> However, if you run vglserver_config, this will configure the server
> such that you can access the 3D graphics card even if no one is logged
> in. This is all documented in the user's guide.
>
> On 6/8/10 8:49 AM, Simon Loic wrote:
> > I don't know if my question is clear so I'll explain the use case.
> > I have a remote server myCoolServer with great rendering capabilities.
> > It is running kde but sometimes (often) no user is physically logged on
> > it (so the server is waiting for a user to start an X session.
> >
> > Besides I am in a foreign country, so I can't just go to that server and
> > log myself in. Still I can do remote login via ssh. I am using FreeNx on
> > top of it actually. But to simplify let's consider I use
> >>> vglconnect myCoolServer
> >
> > Then when I want to use vglrun to launch glxgears I get
> >>> vglrun glxgears
> > [VGL] NOTICE: Automatically setting VGL_CLIENT environment variable to
> > [VGL] 138.195.8.100, the IP address of your SSh client.
> > No protocol specified
> > [VGL] ERROR: Could not open display :0.
> >
> > So my guess is that vgl needs a running x session on :0.
> >
> > Is that true? Aren't there any work around for that?
> > I hope one can help me on that because I'm stuck on it for days, and
> > it's not te first time that happens.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Loïc
> >
> >
> >
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