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Boot debian without monitor
Boot debian without monitor
Hello everybody. I want to as for help with Debian 9 configuration.
I made a little fileserver and I want to use it as home theatre.
My problem is I can't boot my server without monitor.
On the 8th version of debian I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it was possible to boot without monitor. But with 9th version I have no luck.
And the second problem I want to connect my server to TV via hdmi. Should I use any extra configuration for hdmi connection?
motherboard - gigabyte b150m
CPU - Celeron g3900
OS - Debian 9 x64
DE - LXDE
I made a little fileserver and I want to use it as home theatre.
My problem is I can't boot my server without monitor.
On the 8th version of debian I edited /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it was possible to boot without monitor. But with 9th version I have no luck.
And the second problem I want to connect my server to TV via hdmi. Should I use any extra configuration for hdmi connection?
motherboard - gigabyte b150m
CPU - Celeron g3900
OS - Debian 9 x64
DE - LXDE
Re: Boot debian without monitor
One might assume that the TV will be the monitor. Have you tried that yet?I made a little fileserver and I want to use it as home theatre.
Re: Boot debian without monitor
I have similar setup. I keep it simple. No xorg.conf, no DE or WM of any kind, no login managers of course, Kodi runs directly on Xorg. It is set up to autologin and to autostart Kodi. No problems.
If the box does not boot then there must be a booloader or kernel issue, there is no way even a misconfigured xorg.conf could stop box from booting.
If the box does not boot then there must be a booloader or kernel issue, there is no way even a misconfigured xorg.conf could stop box from booting.
Re: Boot debian without monitor
I tried to boot without monitor and with hdmi connected. At first time it didn't boot properly and I don't know on which stage it stopped. At the second time TV's screen was black and I haven't seen hdd activity led blinking. So it's stops on initial stages of boot.TonyT wrote:One might assume that the TV will be the monitor. Have you tried that yet?I made a little fileserver and I want to use it as home theatre.
When I started my box without monitor and after couple minutes I connected it, I haven't seen anything because monitor in standby mode 0_o
I wanted to find some errors during startup....
Re: Boot debian without monitor
Yes you are quite right.
ordinary boot https://pastebin.com/8GPvHKKy (Xorg.0.log)
boot without monitor https://pastebin.com/3032AeFZ (Xorg.0.log.old)
ordinary boot https://pastebin.com/8GPvHKKy (Xorg.0.log)
boot without monitor https://pastebin.com/3032AeFZ (Xorg.0.log.old)
Re: Boot debian without monitor
You are using VESA driver, this is a fallback driver and should not be used. I'm even not sure if VESA supports HDMI, maybe not. Why don't you use the driver that matches your hardware? Can't be more specific, you have chosen not to reveal what graphics chipset is in use.
Re: Boot debian without monitor
Thank you for your reply!
Can you provide my with instruction, how to install proper driver for my hardware?
Can you provide my with instruction, how to install proper driver for my hardware?
Re: Boot debian without monitor
bryanmc wrote:It would be much easier if you told us what your hardware is...
I found that topic http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=131122 and tried to install all packages listed there.supersu wrote: motherboard - gigabyte b150m d3h
CPU - Celeron g3900
OS - Debian 9 x64
DE - LXDE
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firmware-misc-nonfree xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-video-intel libegl1-mesa libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-dri
HDMI connection not working and I can't boot my box without VGA monitor, any ideas?
PS: How can I check is hardware video decoding working when I'm using Debian?
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inxi -Gxx
Graphics: Card: Intel HD Graphics 510 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:1902
Display Server: X.Org 1.19.2 drivers: vesa (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev)
Resolution: 1280x1024@0.00hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.9, 128 bits)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.6 Direct Rendering: Yes
Re: Boot debian without monitor
I'm here to describe results of my work.
I spent a lot of time trying to fix my fileserver but I've done that task.
First try was to install Windows 10 but it can't start without monitor to.
After that I used 3 resistors to delude video card, so it think that there is a monitor connected to VGA.
Next step was playing with UEFI settings and as a result my system boot without monitor.
So it was not OS, it was an hardware problem (or characteristic).
I spent a lot of time trying to fix my fileserver but I've done that task.
First try was to install Windows 10 but it can't start without monitor to.
After that I used 3 resistors to delude video card, so it think that there is a monitor connected to VGA.
Next step was playing with UEFI settings and as a result my system boot without monitor.
So it was not OS, it was an hardware problem (or characteristic).