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

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Sep 19 19:11:03 UTC 2008


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:05 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> John Drescher 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?
>>>
>> Yes you need x11vnc.
>
> I thought X11VNC would mimic an existing desktop, instead of creating a
> new "virtual" one. I would think he wants tightVNC, or the original VNC
> server, not X11VNC.
>
> Or am I wrong, which is quite possible.
>
> In any case, it doesn't sound like he wants to export the entire
> desktop, just X applications, which can be done easily with ssh -X
> (assuming the ssh server has that feature enabled).
>

I am not sure I have not tried this in ages. Possibly, I will try this
weekend (time permitting). All the home computers are server class
opteron boards so I can boot them without a display card.

John


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