[plug] kvm issues

[James Elliott]

I have had issues with KVM switches linking computers using different 
operating systems to mouse, keyboard and monitor.  Windows 98 machines, in 
particular, seem to freeze when you switch away from them and then back 
again, but I have found that by plugging a separate mouse into the 98 
machine instead of using the KVM mouse plug, the problem goes away.

As you say, it seems like some sort of hardware recognition problem.

James

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ranz" <ranz at devdata.net>
To: <plug at plug.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2006 3:46 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] kvm issues


> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 19:07 +0800, Mark Fryer wrote:
>
>> Using a 4 port Aten KVM and Ubuntu I have to either have the machine
>> selected during install or manually change the config files as it does
>> default to "Default Monitor" settings which has a low resolution. Once
>> installed however it will boot with the correct settings each time even
>> if not selected on the KVM. As it has already been said it sounds like a
>> hardware detection issue.
>>
>> As for it being Windows based, on my windows machine I have multiple
>> "default monitor" and "plug and play monitor" drivers automagically
>> installed which seems to retain the resolution and give me all sorts of
>> interesting ratio options so I don't know if Windows knows about the
>> switch or just covers it up with default drivers.
>>
> want a laugh?
>
> well I thought it was funny ...
>
> it works fine now - perhaps a OpenSuSe update fixed it?
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>
> Ranz
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