On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 15:15:36 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > adding debian-x@ to the loop. > > Mario Lang <ml...@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). > I don't know the context here, but the 'fall back to the dummy driver' thing seems like a bad idea. There's already a way to force outputs as enabled from xorg.conf iirc.
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