LINUX - No videocard on server

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. On dedicated server
2. Start gource - require videocard

command: 
mik@dev:~/gource$ /home/mik/gource/bin/bin/gource gource --log-format
custom rywal1.xml --stop-at-end --output-ppm-stream test.ppm

       ---------------------- DirectFB v0.9.25 ---------------------
             (c) 2000-2002  convergence integrated media GmbH
             (c) 2002-2004  convergence GmbH
        -----------------------------------------------------------

(*) DirectFB/Core: Single Application Core. (2006-12-04 07:00)
(*) Direct/Memcpy: Using MMX optimized memcpy()
(!) Direct/Util: opening '/dev/fb0' and '/dev/fb/0' failed
    --> No such file or directory
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Error opening framebuffer device!
(!) DirectFB/FBDev: Use 'fbdev' option or set FRAMEBUFFER environment variable.
(!) DirectFB/Core: Could not initialize 'system' core!
    --> Initialization error!
Segmentation fault


Is really needed to have videocard? How can I generate this element on my
machine withouth videocard?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by romanski...@gmail.com on 5 Mar 2010 at 10:02

[GoogleCodeExporter]

Yes currently it needs a video card as far as I know.

It might be possible to get it to work using Mesa GL and X Virtual Framebuffer
(xvfb), but I haven't tried so I don't know the details.

Original comment by acaudw...@gmail.com on 11 Mar 2010 at 11:10

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I can confirm that I have compiled and run gource 0.27 on a server with just 
the integrated graphics (old 8MB ATI chip) using X.Org X Server 1.7.6 with 
Mesa. This was on an Ubuntu 64bit setup.

Original comment by bunge...@gmail.com on 17 Aug 2010 at 6:38

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It is possible. I managed to run Gource in Xvfb on Ubuntu 10.10 without a 
videocard.

Useful links:

http://notwastingtime.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-to-set-up-gource-in-ubuntu-1004.h
tml
http://blog.martin-lyness.com/archives/installing-xvfb-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koa
la
http://linuxindetails.wordpress.com/2010/03/10/ww-the-directory-varlibdefomax-tt
cidfont-conf-ddirstruetype-does-not-exist/

Original comment by lipin%c-...@gtempaccount.com on 30 Dec 2010 at 7:06