disabling X and keyboard/mouse
 

HI

Were tring to set up a server, when I disconnect the mouse or keyboard an error occurs on startup, is there away to enable the computer so it doesnt require a keyboard and mouse on startup??

Also, it automatically opens up in X windows, can this be disabled to????

thanks
joe

If the keyboard/mouse problem occurs before linux is booting (most likely) then you'll need to check with your BIOS vendor on that. On at least one of my headless machines I have to leave a keyboard connected to get it to boot.

Depending on your distribution, X can be disabled by changing the startup scripts or default runlevel. What distro do you have?

The BIOS should have an option called "Halt On" or something similar to that. You can change to All Except Keyboard. I have seen this on Award and Pheonix BIOS.

Edit /etc/inittab. Look for default level. Level 3 should be a good level for a server. Usually level 5 or 4 is the GUI. You can use chkconfig (Redhat based distributions using System V init scripts) or env-update (Gentoo) to list, turn on, or turn off services for certain runlevels.

Thanks

im using core 1, ive managed to disable X, the mouse and keyboard. The next problem is if I leave it on, (but not in X) it goes to sleep after about 30mins of running and needs mouse/keyboard input to awaken it, is there away to sort this??

Most likely this is an ACPI function, so look and see if anything is defined in /etc/acpi.d/