Hi, adding debian-x@ to the loop. Mario Lang <mlang@debian.org> (15/02/2011): > > Please try to connect it. X driver developpers are not aware that > > it can be useful to start X without a physical screen attached. > > I've noticed this behaviour at least at one point in the past. > > I think we should follow up on this and try to raise awareness > upstream, or at least file a bug for it in our bts. I've just tried that with squeeze's -video-ati & -video-dummy drivers installed, and indeed, ati tries to find a screen, fails, and bails out. We've tweaked this already for intel/vesa fallback, so that not finding a screen doesn't put an end to the whole X start-up, and so that other drivers are considered. I guess it might be sufficient to do the same for other drivers (at least making sure ati and nouveau support that would make sense, I guess). KiBi.
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