On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 22:34:42 +0100, Osvaldo La Rosa wrote: > a blind friend of mine does not use any monitor. Until now he was able to > use he's previously installed Debian Gnu/Linux system, without screen > connected. > Since he changed the motherboard, the system was able to boot, but no longer > able to switch from x to console ! > Solution: he bought a monitor and now it does works, but ... let me say this > is an expensive solution, isn't it ? > The solution: plese do urgently implement xorg to be able to boot without > any monitor connected: > - useful for blind users > - useful for people using PC's remotely as server. > BTW why does this had worked before ? is it a feature that was deleted > inside Xorg recently ? > It should now be possible to force an output/connector as connected in xorg.conf, which would make X start up at 1024x768 on it (since xserver 1.9). Closing as fixed. Cheers, Julien
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