On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:23:26AM +0200, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote: > W dniu 06.05.2011 10:27, Marcin Juszkiewicz pisze: > >Hi > > > >I would like to ask about your display setups on work desks because > >recent changes in pandaboard kernel moves me into 'lets buy another lcd' > >direction... > > >Switching ports on panda requires powering it off in order to not damage > >it. Guessing which port works is not a way. Connecting panda HDMI to 24" > >HDMI is also no solution cause this will leave me without display for my > >desktop. > > > >How you people solve that in other way then buying yet-another-lcd? > > I've got ATEN CS1794 HDMI+USB KVM available here [1]. It comes with > 4 fat cables for connecting HDMI, USB, Sound IN/OUT, is quite > compact and optionally rack-mountable. I use it to drive my > monitor+USB hub and switch between my laptop, beagle, helper desktop > and PS3. > > 1: > http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?pid=20090211152610001&psid=20070130114411002&pcid=20070130111333003&layerid=subClass3 > > > Best regards > ZK
I have always been put off by the ridiculous prices of HDMI/DVI KVM switches. What kind of circuitry could they possibly contain that costs that much? I believe they are just pushing the prices as high as the can get away with. They just need to keep the cost at less than buying 2/3/4 monitors (which is a very high upper bound), in order to make the deal look sweet. I would very much like to be proven wrong, but at least in my eyes it looks like a scam. Unless space is a severely limiting factor, I would rather spend that money on buying separate screens/mice/keyboards. Thanks, Alexandros _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
