On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 11:57 +1200, chris wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 11:45 +1200, Craig Falconer wrote: > > chris wrote, On 06/23/2010 07:52 PM: > > > As I needed to keep SWMBO happy I uncoupled the box from my KVM switch > > > and set it up with the Viewsonic as a standalone system. > > ... > > > Bingo, it picked up the monitor and the edid information and immediately > <snip> > > switch. Novaview and Rextron ones work well. > > > > A four port PS2 switch with OSD is about $200+ > > A four port USB switch with OSD is about $220+ > > 2 port ones are available, but they don't do OSD or chaining. > <snip> > > completely - probably quite similar costs. > > > > > Hi Craig, > what I actually did, was follow an x-org template sent by Aaron (I > think) > and add the preferred mode into that, so it is now working fine through > the switch. > Just for your info, there were two issues. One was a flaky hard drive > which I have consigned >null > The other the Kvm switch. > Also on the ubuntu forum =technical support, a number of heads have > popped up with the same kvm issue, or looking for solutions. > > I need to read man xorg and work out how to include a driver section to > finish the whole thing off. > However for now working and nearly completely resolved. > And SWMBO is happy. > On a personal note, how is the land rover? > We are still wandering around the landscape > Cheers Chris Thomas > > A final solution is to just use remote X and a headless box. I know that 10.04 seems to have destroyed that option for some reason...
X :1 -query <remote ip> then Ctrl-Alt-F8 and ..F7 to swap displays was so simple in a pure *nix environment. vnc is also another alternative. I do have a KVM switch lying around, but it's analog... Cheers, Steve -- Steve Holdoway <st...@greengecko.co.nz> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: st...@greengecko.co.nz Skype: sholdowa
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