On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a 4 computer KVM device made by Linksys. > > The first problem I ran into is that my manual switch used male to male > vga cables where this smart switch uses male to female. Another problem > is that the extender cable I bought had standoffs that got in the way > and I had to literally rip them off with pliers, but as far as I can > tell the cable still works... > > What I'm finding is that my Alpha running CentOS 4.3 can't detect the > monitor when it is going through this KVM switch. The monitor is a > Mitsubishi M55 LCD that can do 1024x768 max, but I've never been able > to get to that resolution on my Alpha. My video card in the Alpha is > a Matrox Millenium II. > > Anyone else run into trouble with X when using this switch?
Haven't used that specific switch but experience with KVM switches is that they don't typically handle pass through the I2C communication from the video card to the monitor back. The typical solution is to remove the KVM for resolution configuration/detection and then put the KVM back in place. Sometimes if the video card thinks the monitor has changed when the KVM is in place you will have to manually configure the monitor selection based on the auto-detected monitor when KVM was out. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
