On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:03:21AM -0400, Tinker wrote: > On February 16, 2018 4:35 PM, Jiri B <ji...@devio.us> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:19:44AM -0800, Mike Larkin wrote: > > > > > Xvfb + x11vnc worked fine in the test I just did. > > > > Yes, it does, thanks for confirmation. > > > > I was curious why X11 'dummy' mode does not if it should be > > used in environments without graphical card for headless X11 > > server. > > > > Maybe it does not work as our xf86-video-dummy is old, > > > > https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xf86-video-dummy/commit/87249af5faf85c8d093e910c069faa4db0aee843#diff-67e997bcfdac55191033d57a16d1408a > > > > I'll stick to Xvfb for now and I'll give a try to build > > newer xf86-video-dummy. > > > > Jiri > > (Thread crossreferenced with > https://marc.info/?t=152230713300003&r=1&w=2 .) > > Thanks for reporting that you got X dummy working, though only on > baremetal but not in a VMM, the latter crashing at X start with > message "(EE) xf86OpenConsole: No console driver found". > > Do you have any idea what "No console driver found" here means, like, > is it trying to open some hardware descriptor and it can't find it in > VMM because VMM won't produce it while some PCI device on your > baremetal would? Anyhow weird considering the X is supposed to not > touch any hardware ("dummy" = graphics driver and "void" = mouse and > keyboard drivers.) > > Did you get any idea about the detail cause? > > If any patch needs testing e.g. upgrade to latest > https://github.com/freedesktop/xorg-xf86-video-dummy/ feel free to let > me know. > > Thanks, > Tinker
what do you hope to achieve here?
