Quote from: martok on June 13, 2011, 11:41:43 PM

Just to put another solution out there. I don't like the idea of waiting 30 seconds for x to start. It's hackish and assumes that X will start in 30 seconds. I use gdm3 and have daemon.conf set to automatically log in the bitcoin user. Then in /home/bitcoin/.gnomerc, you can have all your miner start code, not having to care about $DISPLAY or whether X has launched properly. Further, this doesn't require creating a custom init.d script.

I think this could be adjusted further by taking out gnome entirely and having a line like:
@reboot startx
in a user crontab then using a .xinitrc to launch things.

Hi martok,

When I originally wrote the upstart script I was in a hurry and wanted to get my rig mining up as soon as possible. I still plan on rewriting the btcminer scripts to take out the sleep 30 and search for X running. I new it was hackish at the time but in bitcoin time is money. Wink

That would also speed up the process but I have not had the time to do that yet. One advantage of running X straight without runing gdm is that all the extra process that are associated with Gnome and GDM are not running. On the latest systems I set up I build them with the mini.iso ubuntu image without even loading a desktop. The only thing I installed was xorg and the utilities to build the ati driver and other software like python.

Here is the original post I wrote for headless mining.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=9239.0

- Dukejer

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