[mythtv-users] modernizing mythtv

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Sun May 11 21:29:10 UTC 2014


On 5/11/2014 5:47 AM, Mike Perkins wrote:
> On 11/05/14 01:46, jedi wrote:
>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 01:30:49PM -0400, Will Dormann wrote:
>>> On 5/10/14, 12:58 PM, Hika van den Hoven wrote:
>>>>> I have completely headless BE, I upgrade the kernels and run setup
>>>>> remotely no problem. No X installed.
>>>>
>>>> You're sure you don't have a 'hidden' X-server running on your
>>>> backend to facilitate?
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm also curious about this.   mythbackend has several X library
>>> dependencies, and therefore I would think that somewhere along the way
>>> you'd run into trouble if they were not present.
>>
>>      The X libraries connect to whatever graphics display server you are
>> using wherever you happen to be sitting. You don't even need ANY display
>> hardware to be present for a machine to be running an X app so long as
>> the X server is remote.
>>
> True, but try getting any modern distro to boot without /any/ display
> hardware! Server-optimised software might but that likely involves other
> complications I don't need.
>

Servers are often going to have integrated display hardware, linked into 
a coprocessor running a hardware IP-KVM. "Server-optimized" software 
would be just as likely to assume an IPMI implementation is available.


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