Re: Display setups on your work desks

2011-05-06 Thread Jaswinder Singh
On 6 May 2011 15:33, Alexandros Frantzis wrote: > > Unless space is a severely limiting factor, I would rather spend that > money on buying separate screens/mice/keyboards. > Well, for display I think a soln like KVM swith would do in this case. For mice/screen, for ex, I install quicksynergy (o

Re: Display setups on your work desks

2011-05-06 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
W dniu 06.05.2011 12:12, James Tunnicliffe pisze: Yes, it is two buttons to press instead of one, but having a real USB switcher instead of a KVM solution where you can only switch a mouse and keyboard (the set up I have) sounds great to me. The KVM I mentioned has full selective switching sup

Re: Display setups on your work desks

2011-05-06 Thread Christian Robottom Reis
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:12:55AM +0100, James Tunnicliffe wrote: > Looks like switching isn't too expensive to me: > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Duronic-Switch-input-output-Switcher/dp/B0020426AG/ref=tag_tdp_sv_edpp_i > http://www.lindy.co.uk/usb-switch-4-port-usb-2-autoswitch/42784.html I use somet

Re: Display setups on your work desks

2011-05-06 Thread Alexandros Frantzis
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 07:26:05AM -0300, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:12:55AM +0100, James Tunnicliffe wrote: > > Looks like switching isn't too expensive to me: > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Duronic-Switch-input-output-Switcher/dp/B0020426AG/ref=tag_tdp_sv_edpp_i > >

Re: Display setups on your work desks

2011-05-06 Thread James Tunnicliffe
> 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 m

Re: Display setups on your work desks

2011-05-06 Thread Alexandros Frantzis
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... > > >S

Re: Display setups on your work desks

2011-05-06 Thread Zygmunt Krynicki
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

Display setups on your work desks

2011-05-06 Thread Marcin Juszkiewicz
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... Now I have two displays on my desk: - 24" 1920x1080 - DVI port is main display of my desktop - VGA port was used with some boards in p