On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:09:20AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > Excerpts from Chris Wilson's message of Thu Oct 08 09:43:16 -0700 2009: > > In a headless configuration, in order to convince the XServer to start > > the user must explicitly enable an output. > > I see that as the fundemental problem here. I'd suggest that the > server should allow the device to start without any outputs connected > and create a default sized frame buffer (1024x768?).
For boards that actually have output connectors (i.e. not Tesla cards), this is a bad idea. The number of users who actually want a headless configuration is much smaller than the number of users who would be confused and infuriated when starting X makes all of their displays go blank due to misconfiguration or driver bugs and results in what is essentially a hung machine. X failing to start with an informative log message is far better than a frozen computer that requires the reset button to fix. I think making people explicitly configure X to be headless is a reasonable compromise. -- Aaron _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
