console blanks when running coolgpus

[eugeneware]

Thanks so much for creating coolgpus. It's been a great tool for keeping our multi-GPU machine cool.

I have a monitor plugged into my first GPU which usually shows a console which is useful for getting access to our server if there are any hardware problems.

But after launch coolgpus that display goes blank and unresponsive. When I kill coolgpus the console returns.

Is there a way to configure the xorg.conf files or make any other changes to prevent this from happening?

Thanks for any help you can offer and for the great tool you've written.

[v-iashin]

Hi

We have a similar setup as you describe and we also face the same issue. I think this is tracked in #1 and still unsolved.

[andyljones]

As @v-iashin says, this is (unfortunately) expected behaviour. #1 'tracks progress', but because (a) my own machine is headless and (b) partially-headless seems to be a lot trickier than entirely-headless, it's likely to remain unresolved for the foreseeable future.

While this limitation is mentioned in the readme, it's not very prominent. I'll fix that at least!