[mythtv-users] Rec-Pending system event on backend-only system?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 6/22/2011 06:05, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 21/06/11 17:51, Jeff Piazza wrote:
>> Now that summer's here, the TV associated with the slave myth system goes to
>> another location entirely (long story).  Now that the slave system has no
>> monitor, X won't start, and, in turn, neither with mythfrontend.  Well,
>> that's fine, there's no special reason to have it running when there's no way
>> to view it.  However, I do still have the back end set up, and use it for
>> recording from the STB.
>>
> This is a common problem I've faced when setting boxes up to be headless
> servers. Some video drivers baulk at not having anything connected and stop
> right there - very difficult to debug when you haven't got a monitor connected!
>
> The solution, fortunately, is simple. Go into your video configuration and
> select the "Vesa" driver. That's dumb enough that it will allow the box to boot
> up without any monitor connected, and when you need to do maintenance will allow
> you to connect a monitor and run X well enough to get the task done.

Or, he could continue operating with no monitor and no X server, and 
simply run whatever applications he needs remotely.