headless egl in tegra k1 libraries

Hello,

I am trying to use GLES2 on a headless (no hdmi port) board. I am having trouble getting and initializing the display. No X running. I am trying this code

EGLDisplay eglDpy = eglGetDisplay(EGL_DEFAULT_DISPLAY);
assert(EGL_NO_DISPLAY!=eglDpy);  // fails here
  EGLint major, minor;
 EGLBoolean res = eglInitialize(eglDpy, &major, &minor); 
assert(EGL_FALSE!=res); //also fails here

My question is: Does EGL on L4T works without X ? If no , Can X be run without an hdmi port ?