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On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 1:07 PM, G.Wolfe Woodbury <redwolfe@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 01/22/2012 12:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> I played a bit with get-edid | parse-edid. Logically that stuff even |
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>> working says the VGA monitor cable is bidirectional. I started wondering if |
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>> the KVM messes up the data coming back, or what else might be going on. |
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>> Thanks for the ideas, Mark |
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> Many of the cheap KVM models do, indeed, mess up the EDID data coming from |
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> the monitor. I suspect that this is from old design specs that have too |
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> much pull-up/pull-down on the EDID lead since the boxen haven been |
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> re-engineered for newer, higher resolution and higher speed monitors. |
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> I have had problems specifically with the BELKIN KVMs. |
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> It may also be that the video drivers for Linux are just enough different |
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> (necessarily) from the MSFT drivers to not reliably sense the EDID return |
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> signals. |
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Concur. It sounds like the EDID block isn't making it back or is |
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somehow messed up. x11-misc/read-edid would help in investigating that |
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kind of issue. |
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:wq |
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