Not Booting without monitor attached

[oilytin]

Just upgraded to amahi 5, install went smoothly but but having trouble getting it to boot without the monitor attached, Ive found this on the net it refers to fedora 11 but symptoms look identical to mine? editing the grub conf file is a bit beyond my abilities at the moment so any help would be much appreciated.
Anthony

[cpg]

try removing the keyboard only and seeing what's going on.
it may well be waiting on the legendary "press F1" because "keyboard is not found".
if so you have to turn off that keyboard check in the bios.

[oilytin]

sorry for the very late reply have tried alsorts of combinations of mice keyboards and monitor and have come to the conclusion that it just needs monitor attached to boot
as soon as it is booted I can disconnect the monitor and everything is fine
again this problem only manifested itself when upgrading to the fedora 12 amahi

[joeaverge]

I have the SAME problem
It will not boot into graphical desktop without a monitor. I believe it is Xwindows related.

This affects a few things for me.
WebVNC will not work. You need to autologin for this ans since it will not load the desktop the autologin does not happen.
I canot remote in with freenx unless it boots to the desktop

and the worst for me?...

I use MPD (Music Player Daemon) to port Ampache to my stereo. Fedora 12 by default uses Pulse Audio instead of alsa. Pulse Audio needs the xwindows up to run.

For now I am living with a system the is not fully headless.

Joeaverge

[oilytin]

can anyone give me some advice on editing the grub conf file, i would like to try adding the nomodeset parameter as suggested in the link on my first post, but am unsure where to find the file and where to add the parameter.

[oilytin]

sorted it now followed instructions from http://blog.universejdj.com/2010/03/11/ ... a-monitor/

[cpg]

Good link. I did not know that there was a hard check on monitor while booting.

I guess perhaps it's an interaction on a driver and a video card. Hmm.