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Guillaume Coté
Asked: 2010-10-15 12:17:00 +0800 CST

Autostart of the xserver at boot up when the monitor is unplugged

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I was running Xubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron". I configure the vnc by adding vino-server to the autostarted app. I accessing the display only via VNC, so I removed the monitor and ir worked fine.

When I upgrade to 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", I was unable to connect. I borrow back the monitor and I plug it. I was seeing nothing so I do a restart by ssh. When it restart, I was able to vnc without an issue. I removed the monitor and worked like that for a few week, but when I installed some update, I needed to restart. After the restart, the vnc is not available. When I to a ps -aux by ssh, the xserver does not seem to be running.

How could I tell xubuntu 10.04 to automatically start the xserver when no monitor is plug, just as 8.04?

Thanks

xorg vnc xubuntu

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Replace xorg.conf in /etc/X11 by the file in : http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9565510&postcount=25

    Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to add " nomodeset" to the line beginning with "# kopt=", then run sudo update-grub. The # should stay at the beginning of the line. (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Working%20around%20bugs%20in%20the%20new%20kernel%20video%20architecture)

    Thanks to JanC for it's help. If I could, I would edit it's answer.

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  2. You might try the following solution: http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9565510&postcount=25

    It might also be useful to use another driver instead of 'vesa' in the config (but OTOH, when used with VNC you have no real hardware acceleration anyway) or to change the resolution if you prefer that.

    If you don't have an /etc/default/grub file, you're probably still using "legacy" grub (aka "grub 1"). In that case you will have to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the line starting with "# defoptions=" to include nomodeset.

    After adding nomodeset to any of those files, you should also run sudo update-grub (I see that's not mentioned in that forum post).

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