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Praveen Patnaik <praveen@ciesin.org> wrote:

>Hello,

>I need to be able to run an X server on a unix box. This box should not 
>need to have a monitor or a keyboard attached to it. 

I've been trying to do this, too; actually something similar, where we
have two display adapters and one keyboard.  I *don't* want the X
server for the second display adapter to use the keyboard and mouse;
it should be just for display *only*.

So far, I haven't been able to get X to run without a Keyboard and
Mouse.  Period.  I can of course start one server for two displays, or
if I start the second server, it takes over the keyboard/mouse from
the first, but that's not what we want.

I too would appreciate any help on this.

Regards,

Steve Casagrande
IBM Singapore
scasagrande@pacific.net.sg
We have a lot of 
>user workstation which occasionally get rebooted on the weekend, which we 
>are using as our display machine for creating graphics via Pixmaps which get 
>converted to a GIF for delivery over the web. We are using a commercial 
>graphics package called Ag/X Toolmaster distributed by AVS. Because 
>of the down time of user workstations, it has not been possible to 
>keep some of our services (in alpha) up 100% of the time. Hence the 
>direction to use a production server to run an X server. 

>Sun's NEWS server has a -nodev option which allows NEWS clients to connect 
>and provide NEWS services. I have not found such an option for the X11R5 
>or X11R6 servers. Please e-mail me (praveen@ciesin.org) if you know of any 
>way around this problem I am facing.

>Thanks.

>Praveen Patnaik, Systems Developer III
>E-mail : praveen@ciesin.org
>Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
>2250 Pierce Rd, University Center, MI 48710.

>PS: I could hang a keyboard off one of our production servers if the X 
>server needs a keyboard to obtain X events.