[mythtv-users] How can I get my monitorless backend to start up

[Nick Rout]

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> Steve V wrote:
>>
>> It seems like the only issue I have is that I can't use VNC because it
>> relies on Xorg.
>>
>> So my choices are:
>> change the Xorg settings so I can use VNC
>
> VNC does not rely on Xorg, it only needs a handful of libraries.  It runs
> its own completely independent X server.  Anything you do to xorg.conf will
> have absolutely no effect on a VNC server.  (This is assuming you're not
> doing something funky like tying RealVNC into the local X server)
>

I think the confusion here is that many distros (eg mythbuntu) do run
x11vnc to facilitate remote access. x11vnc is a copy of the local X
server so requires a local X server to copy. If X won't start then
x11vnc won't either.

As has been pointed out Xvnc does not have this problem.