Running Headless Nvidia Mining Rig Without HDMI Plugs

To run a headless Ubuntu server that you can remote into and will mine your crypto you need to do one of the following:

The easy: Buy a dummy HDMI plug for each rig and move on with your life.
The hard (but adventuresome):
1. 1. From the terminal run this command to update /etc/X11/xorg.conf to fake your system out into thinking you have a monitor connected:
```
$ sudo nvidia-xconfig --use-display-device="DFP-0" --connected-monitor="DFP-0"
```
    Note: this command assumes that you previously booted the system into the GUI and installed the “NVIDIA X Server Settings” client (needed to populate xorg.conf). See my overclocking post if you don’t have “NVIDIA X Server Settings” running yet.
  2. Now if you want to VNC into (a.k.a. “remote into”) your rig, you need to install a VNC server on the destination machine (see my post on steps for that).Assuming you did step one above, and installed a VNC server you will discover that when you remote in the resolution defaults to 800 x 600 and is not helpful. In order to have a sensible resolution default when you remote in, modify (or create) a file sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf to resemble the following:
```
[Seat:*]
autologin-guest=false
autologin-user=YOURLOGIN
autologin-user-timeout=0
display-setup-script=/home/YOURLOGIN/Desktop/vnc_monitor_resolution.sh
session-setup-script=/home/YOURLOGIN/Desktop/vnc_monitor_resolution.sh
```
    Note: Update YOURLOGIN with the account you use to SSH into with.
    
    Now, we have to create and configure the vc_monitor_resolution.sh file.
```
$ cd ~/Desktop
$ nano vnc_monitor_resolution.sh
```
    Then within the file, add:
```
xrandr --fb 1360x768
```
    Note: The resolution can be whatever works for you.
    
    After that we have to make the file executable.
```
chmod a+x vnc_monitor_resolution.sh
```
    Next time you VNC in, magic should happen and it will be in the resolution specified above!
    
    (References: 1 2 3)