It does need X but I did find a way to run it without the mouse. I mistyped when I said headless I actually meant that it needed to run "armless." I just changed /dev/input/mouse to /dev/null and now all is happy. On 11/5/05, Dave Carlson <thecubic at thecubic.net> wrote: > On Saturday 05 November 2005 18:27, Donovan Niesen wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a machine to run headless, the only problem I > > have is that when I unplug the mouse and keyboard, X fails to load. I > > tried commenting out the InputDevice section and the the InputDevice > > part that refers to the mouse in the ServerLayout section but then X > > complains that there is no core pointer. > > If it's running headless and doesn't need X, it would be beneficial to change > the default runlevel in /etc/inittab to 3 so X isn't loaded at all. > > ( 'id:5:initdefault:' -> 'id:3:initdefault:' ) > > Dave Carlson > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- Donovan Niesen dniesen at gmail.com