[NTLUG:Discuss] Ubuntu won't boot without monitor

[Michael Barnes]

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Robert Citek <robert.citek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Michael Barnes <barnmichael at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  Any ideas on how to get around this?  I just want it to boot with the
>  >  same parameters it normally has and do its thing.  Once the error is
>  >  made, the only way to get it back to normal is to do a
>  >  "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg".
>  >
>  >  I just want to disable the monitor detect function on boot up.
>
>  If there's no monitor hooked up, you could disable gdm:
>
>  $ sudo apt-get install sysv-rc-conf
>  $ sudo sysv-rc-conf --list gdm
>  $ sudo sysv-rc-conf --level 2 gdm off
>
>  I'm assuming you're using the default runlevel of 2.  Adjust
>  accordingly if that's not correct.
>
>  Regards,
>  - Robert
>

I still need gdm to come up.  It needs to run applications from the
GUI and be accessible with VNC.  Unless there is something I'm not
understanding about the runlevels.

Thanks,
Michael