<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Yan Seiner <yan@seiner.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, 18 April, 2009 9:24:27 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [mythtv-users] How can I get my monitorless backend to start up<br></font><br><br>You need to configure your bios to start up on all errors.<br><br>If you will be administering your box from another linux box, forget vnc;<br>it's a PITA unless
you need what it offers, and if it dies you are SOL.<br><br>Use gdm; configure it to start up with no local sessions and allow remote<br>connections. Then you can log in from any other terminal as if you were<br>local. Lots faster than VNC, too. google for gdm and XDMCP.<br><br>See<br><br><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/XDMCP-GDM" target="_blank">http://www.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/XDMCP-GDM</a><br><br>setting it up is a one-line change in /etc/gdm/gdm.conf<br><br>--Yan<br><br>-- <br>Yan Seiner, PE<br><br><br>thanks for the quick answer, I tried the BIOS change it made no difference. The boot process is getting past the BIOS, I am pretty sure that the change I need to make is something in the X configuration.<br><br>I'll try gdm once I get the backend fully started without a monitor.<br></div></div></div><br>
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