'nother testing question

[Peter Hutterer]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 09:51:32PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
> > I don't understand. What's wrong with just running Xorg, or xinit, or startx,
> > or gdm/xdm/kdm?
> 
> It's a somewhat complicated setup.  I would really rather not have to use a
> direct console connection, it would be much better just to rely on ssh (IP)
> connections, but I don't think you can start Xorg without being on a physical
> tty, isn't that so?  Am I wrong?  I apologize if I'm wrong (I can't test this at
> the moment).

you can start X from an ssh connection. You may want to read
http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Development/Documentation/ServerDebugging
 
Cheers,
  Peter