GPU openVINO plugin failure when UP2 Atom board is headless in Ubuntu)

Kahren

have installed XRDP on Up2 board running Ubuntu 16.04 and my acceleration on the GPU works fine when I connect a monitor and run it locally. It also works fine when I run it remotely so long as a monitor is connected. Once the monitor is disconnected I get self.exec_net =

self.ie.load_network(network=self.net,device_name=self.plugin)

File "ie_api.pyx", line 178, in

openvino.inference_engine.ie_api.IECore.load_network

File "ie_api.pyx", line 187, in

openvino.inference_engine.ie_api.IECore.load_network

RuntimeError: Failed to create plugin

/opt/intel/openvino_2020.3.194/deployment_tools/inference_engine/lib/intel64/libclDNNPlugin.so

for device GPU

Please, check your environment

[CLDNN ERROR]. clGetPlatformIDs error -1001

Is the GPU being disabled when no monitor is detected? if so, how can I get around this issue?

see also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70515013/gpu-unavailable-for-openvino-when-intel-atom-e3950-nuc-is-headless