[plug] kvm issues

[Tomasz Grzegurzko]

I've seen this with some video card combinations and especially with 
opensuse 10. When you've got the option in xorg.conf to probe the video 
card / monitor for res & refresh rates, what is being picked up is the 
kvms reports rather than patching it through to the monitor. I think the 
option is dde or something like that; I saw it in the intel video card 
driver man page a while ago.

Tomasz

Ranz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am wondering if other people are using KVMs? I use a DUAL-VGA KVM
> (Aten CS-1744), because I use dual display on my Windows PC and my Linux
> (OpenSuSe 10) PC.
> 
> The thing that I've noticed is that if you start up the linux box whilst
> the kvm is set to another PC (i.e. it's not active on the Linux Box) -
> the X windows session doesn't pick-up the correct resolution or behave
> the same as compared to if you started it up with the KVM set to the
> linux box.
> 
> I am imagining that Aten build their KVM's to spec to Windows-based
> drivers and software specs. Is this the reason or is it that Linux has
> poor handling of KVMs?
> 
> By the way - the cricket is on today :) One day series is 1-all and
> starts at 11 am at the Gabba.
>