run Xorg rootless without any input devices (or even tty?)

2020-04-09 Thread Youssef GHORBAL
Hello, I have a special use case in an HPC environement when we want to run Xorg for 3D acceleration purposes only (basically creating GL contexts) It's what VirtualGL[0] uses to render (server side) GL accelerated apps. When a user is allocated a slot on an HPC compute n

Re: run Xorg rootless without any input devices (or even tty?)

2020-04-09 Thread Sylvain Leroux
Bonjour Youssef, Sorry, I don't have the answer to your quetion, but I'm interested by your use case. Did you document your setup somewhere? On 09/04/2020 13:35, Youssef GHORBAL wrote: > Hello, > > I have a special use case in an HPC environement when we want to run > Xorg for 3D accele

Re: run Xorg rootless without any input devices (or even tty?)

2020-04-09 Thread Youssef GHORBAL
Bonjour Sylvain, It's really work in progress for now, nothing really functional, but I'll post something when I have a functional prototype. Youssef --- > On 9 Apr 2020, at 14:01, Sylvain Leroux wrote: > > Bonjour Youssef, > > Sorry, I don't have the answer to your qu

Re: run Xorg rootless without any input devices (or even tty?)

2020-04-09 Thread Sylvain Leroux
Thanks for the reply, Youssef. On 04/09/2020 08:08 PM, Youssef GHORBAL wrote: > It's really work in progress for now, nothing really functional, > but I'll post something when I have a functional prototype. > I'm looking forward to reading it. I think it should be OK if you advertise your post