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Old 11-21-2007, 01:01 PM   #1
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Fedora 8 w/ No Monitor


I'm in need of some advice.

I upgraded my server from Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 8. This is just a file/media/http/vnc/ssh server. I administer it purely remotely and do not have (or ever had) a keyboard, monitor, or mouse connected locally, nor do I really have room for any of that.

Problem is that when I boot X is giving me an error that it couldn't properly initialize a video device...and this is halting my other services from launching.

Under Fedora Core 6 this worked without any work-araounds, however this new distribution seems to have some issues with not having a monitor.

A colleague of mine mentioned a VGA adapter that mimics as a monitor that you plug into the VGA port, but I don't want to do that if it's not necesary.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
 
Old 11-21-2007, 01:20 PM   #2
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why not just stop running X? there's no need to run it locally at all...
 
Old 11-21-2007, 01:53 PM   #3
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Just boot runlevel 3....no need for X.
 
Old 11-21-2007, 04:25 PM   #4
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Just boot runlevel 3....no need for X.
Thanks for the help gents! I tend to over think sometimes...

Edited the default runlevel in /etc/inittab from 5 to 3.
 
  


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