Quote from: supa on June 13, 2011, 11:50:10 PM

Ya, 30 seconds is an awfully long time.

You could always use something like xwininfo to verify it's running.

For example, if this fails, you have no server running -

xwininfo -display :0 -root

Return on fail should be - "xwininfo: error: unable to open display ":0""
I think xset q could be used, too.

xset -display :0 q

I wouldn't fiddle with gdm - I only use a basic wm and want the minimal work requests to the video card.

Hi supa,

I made some changes to my btcminer_X.conf upstart scripts. They will now check for X and start up automatically.

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

cat /etc/init/btcminer_0.conf

description "Start BTC Mining"
start on runlevel [2345]
stop on runlevel [!2345]
kill timeout 30
script
LOGINUSER=ChangeToMyLoginUser
export DISPLAY=:0
TIMEOUT=30
XPID=""
while true
do
sleep 1
TIMEOUT=`/usr/bin/expr ${TIMEOUT} - 1`
test ${TIMEOUT} -lt 0 && {
echo "X not running."
exit 255
}

XPID=`/usr/bin/pgrep -f -x /usr/bin/X`
test -z ${XPID} && continue
exec /usr/bin/screen -dmS gpu0 su -c '/usr/local/bin/startminer.sh 0' ${LOGINUSER}
exit 0
done
end script

- Dukejer

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