Bug#613670: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686: EDID checksum failure kills X while switched away using KVM switch

Hi Jonathan, Julien, Thanks for getting back to me on this. Unfortunately I've since switched to a DisplayPort monitor which my DVI KVM switch can't switch, so can't easily check this. I'll try to find time at some point though. Regards, Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#613670: Acknowledgement (linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686: EDID checksum failure kills X while switched away using KVM switch)

After some further experimentation it seems that it might be the actual moment of switching the KVM switch back to my squeeze machine that X dies: through ssh I could see processes attached to my login right until I switched. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#613670: linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-686: EDID checksum failure kills X while switched away using KVM switch

Package: linux-2.6 Version: 2.6.32-30~bpo50+1 Severity: important Hello, This problem may well reside in X or gnome, but unfortunately they aren't reporting anything, while the kernel (drm module) is. I'm using a keyboard-video-mouse (KVM) switch to switch between a number of computers; before

Bug#302729: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386: PS/2 mouse support broken with KVM switch

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386 Version: 2.6.8-15 Severity: important For all kernels more recent than 2.6.6-2-386, one of my machines (quite an old ALi M1541-based one) treats all mouse movement as random noise when my Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 is connected to my machine through my I/O Gear