"modern" KVM that works?

[Jerry Feldman]

Actually it was not Cable and Wireless, it was Cables to Go. Excellent KVM.

On 03/18/2014 07:17 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> The two vendors I avoid like the plague are IOGear and Belkin. That
> said other than that, one feature you want to explore is how to switch
> from 1 system to the other. The belkin I had at work gave be terrible
> video and I could not use their auto switch capability. Bought one
> from Cable and Wireless. It worked find and got good resolution videa.
> But every KVM has a different way to switch.
>
> On 03/17/2014 08:28 PM, David Rysdam wrote:
>> Back in my day we had it bad. Uphill to school, analog phones, etc. But
>> our KVMs were simple AB hardware switches and we liked it, by gum.
>>
>> Today, I'm trying to hook up a VGA-only desktop and an HDMI-only
>> Raspberry Pi to a VGA/DVI monitor with USB keyboard and mouse.
>>
>> Many options, but I eventually decided on a combination HDMI->VGA
>> converter (powered and active) and this KVM:
>>
>>     http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817107417
>>
>> Forget about the Pi and the converter for a minute, because just the KVM
>> won't work right.
>>
>> If you boot the computer up "normally" (i.e. no KVM in the loop) and
>> then connect the KVM, it works great. If you boot up with the KVM in the
>> loop, the screen goes into power save right before/as the video card
>> goes into graphics mode. After a series of experiments, it has been
>> determined that gdm3 is not really running there, but it does pop up if
>> you switch the KVM out the loop without powering down. Putting the KVM
>> back in the loop then and it works as expected.
>>
>> I don't know much about what happens between the normal bootup and when
>> gdm starts running (this is on Debian 6), but I'm guessing there's a
>> hardware detect going on that the KVM is failing to negotiate. Any
>> ideas?
>>
>> (As I was writing this email, I realized I could use a KVM just for the
>> K&M and let the dual input monitor handle the two Vs. But that would
>> require two "switching actions" for the user, so I'd rather get this
>> thing working if I can.)
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