headless 3D

[Bridgman, John]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Ata Roboubi <ata at earthdetails.com> wrote:
> I am using an AGP ATI Radeon 9200 SE card (i believe with the fglrx
> driver) on AMD64 linux to render 3D on a headless server. I then
> gl_readpixels() and use the result without it ever being looked at on
> the interactive display.
>
> On xserver-xorg 7.0.0-0ubu (ubuntu 6.04), I made the following changes
> to my xorg.conf to make it not harp about the missing monitor:
...snip...
> I recently upgraded to 7.5+5ubu (ubuntu 10.04). The above seized to
> work. I have tried the standard and fglrx driver and both refuse to
> work without a monitor.

The fglrx driver that supports 9200 won't run on Ubuntu 10.04. You will definitely need to go with the open source driver.