Starting cgminer on a headless Debian machine

[jsnikeris]

I'm having trouble getting this setup correctly. cgminer runs fine when I login to the machine using gdm, but if I reboot it and login using SSH, cgminer doesn't recognize my GPU.

$ ./cgminer -n
No protocol specified
[2011-12-22 00:40:38] Error: Getting Device IDs (num)
[2011-12-22 00:40:38] clDevicesNum returned error, none usable
0 GPU devices detected

Also, if I run cgminer w/ an init.d script I have the same problem whether I launch cgminer as root or as a regular user.

I think the problem is that before logging in using gdm, the X server is owned by root. Therefore, cgminer being run as a regular user cannot access X resources like the display.

So, you'd think running cgminer as root would resolve the issue; however, it does not for me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also, it would be great if I could ask questions like this in the appropriate forum...

[jsnikeris]

I don't really want that behavior though. :-/

[jsnikeris]

Why not it solves all these stupid problems I see people having and it is only a miner with nothing important on it right? So it makes no difference if it has a logged in desktop sitting there doing nothing...

Well, no it's my main desktop computer.

I'm thinking I'll make a user specifically for cgminer, and auto-login w/ that. Then I can just switch users to my real user when I actually sit down in front of the machine.

[talvivaara]

Really wished i would'n even need to run the xserver for the opencl and drivers to work. But here's how it is: http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/App_Note-Running_AMD_APP_Apps_Remotely.pdf