[mythtv-users] Any advice on cooling down my backend

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Fri Sep 19 19:03:00 UTC 2008


Edmund wrote:

> (Brian)
> I do ssh into the box now, for everything other than reinstalling the OS 
> and changing the bios, though I did mess up the network settings once.
> 
> Sorry for asking such a stupid question but will ssh -X -Y ..... still 
> work if I remove the video card from the server?

Sure, why not?

The X server is running on your remote machine, and that's the only
thing that needs to talk to video hardware.

If you want to use VNC you would have to use a standard VNC server, not
one that mimics an existing desktop that's using a video card (like X11VNC).

beww


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