Hey guys, so I have a desktop that I have been using for everything, and now I want to use it for a host to steam in home streaming. There are no monitors plugged into the GPU. I want to remotely start a lightweight desktop manager like xfce and start steam. The problem I am having is that since there are no displays, I can't launch any X servers. I would create a dummy display, but I don't have any resistors. As a side note, if anyone knows what household items would have resistors useable for a dummy monitor, that would be awesome. Thanks guys (:
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Think your problem is that no x11 server is started. TBH even though the system is headless, let it start up a X11 session where you can launch steam from.
How do I make it launch an X server?
run startx in the terminal
Should do the trick I believe.
ok, Ill try
Fatal server error:
(EE) no screens found(EE)
Remember, I am running this headlessly.
This is from 2010 but it may apply to you.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1466271
This is for RHEL but its similar: https://access.redhat.com/solutions/54937
OK, I will try, the only problem is that I have no monitor to plug it into, but I have ssh.