On 5/11/2013 9:59 PM, David Christensen wrote: > On 05/11/13 16:43, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Analog KVM auto switches, especially super cheap ones such as your >> IOGEAR, are notoriously finicky when it comes to driving high >> resolutions, displaying horrible artifacts, if they can drive the >> bandwidth at all. > > The image is acceptable. The monitor has more issues than the KVM. > >> They also rarely pass DDC signals correctly. > > IOGEAR advertises newer models that query EDID from the monitor and > cache the response for the computers. > >> Ironically the even cheaper manual switch analog KVMs are better with >> DDC. > > I had horrible keyboard and mouse problems with manual switches. It > took me several iterations of buy, test, and return to find an > electronic KVM that worked correctly.
When VMware workstation arrived over a decade ago, then Linux hypervisors, the need for desktop KVM switches began to wane, and eventually I was KVM free. I still use auto KVMs in server racks but there are no issues with 132x50 text consoles. -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/518fc463.1050...@hardwarefreak.com
