It's a cheap KVM. What its doing is not passing the DDC info from the monitor to the PC, so the PC is starting up in some lower resolution or refresh. Exactly how that impacts on fonts I'm not sure, but likely your font manager is making a decision based on the refresh/resolution that X is running in.
Good luck! I have ~20 spare CRTs if you want some. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 17 September 2006 9:56 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Why are my fonts funny through a KVM? I pulled my DSE 2 port KVM (XH4512) out of the cupboard this evening so I could install something on a box that is to be headless - ie I have my normal desktop into one port and the destination box into the other. X still works at the same resolution on the desktop, but all the fonts are suddenly tiny. Running X at 1280x1024 with KDE on gentoo. I know it happened last time I used the KVM too, but I just put up with it. Now I am not so forgiving.
