[nzlug] Xorg without keyboard or mouse

[Andrew Bruce]

Sorry, I need to be more clear.

I've already installed realvnc with a sever module extension that is 
started when Xorg is loaded.  I use this on a bunch of machines at work 
as it is completely transparent to the user - it just loads and displays 
their screen just as the Windows based one does - which is exactly what 
I want in this situation.  And it works, I can see the module being 
loaded into the server.

The problem is, and this happened before I even installed the VNC 
module, is that I can't seem to start Xorg without a mouse of keyboard 
connected physically to the system.  Obviously I need to be able to 
start the X server so I can get a graphical display up, but it won't.  
I've seen what is happening before, and its due to the mouse not being 
present, but I can't get it to ignore the fact that the mouse isn't there.

Is there anyway I can make the machine completely ignore the missing 
mouse and keyboard within the X configuration file?  I don't really want 
to have to leave a mouse and keyboard permanently connected to the 
machine :(

Regards,

Andrew

Donald Gordon wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:03:07 +1000, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
>   
>> Andrew Bruce <abruce at ihug.co.nz> writes:
>>     
>
>   
>> Years ago the only VNC server on Unix was Xvnc, which was a standard X
>> server that *only* supported VNC output.  No local display, no local
>> keyboard, no local mouse.
>>     
>
> But now there are more.
>
>   
>>> Anyone know how I could go about doing this?
>>>       
>
> Install x11vnc (a windows-style screen-scraping VNC server) and
> configure your system to run it at the appropriate time.
>
> This is assuming that you want a PC sitting there with stuff on the
> screen that people can see, but that only you can (remotely) control.
> If you don't care what's on the screen, then Xvnc is for you.
>
> donald
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