[Intel-gfx] Can't start X headless

[Chris Wilson]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 16:18:19 +0800, Chris <tlvenn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying desperately to find a working X config that would allow me
> to leverage the intel driver without a monitor being plugged in
> (Headless). We need to do some opengl rendering which are later saved
> on the disk as images and the jobs are executed on servers which by
> nature are headless.
> 
> For reference, the server has an intel HD 2000 IGPU and I am using
> Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with the latest intel driver (2.19.0).
> I have tried everything I could think of without success.
> Always end up with:
> 
> [3661641.967] (EE) No devices detected.
> [3661641.967] Fatal server error: no screens found

This implies that it wasn't able to detect the Intel GPU at all. Can you
please attach your dmesg and lspci? You may need to tweak your BIOS in
case it is hiding the iGPU.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre