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On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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Yeah, I did that sort of stuff already. It didn't tell me anything |
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specific as best I could tell. However I haven't done it with the KVM |
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out. Maybe comparing the two responses would give some clues. |
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Also, thanks for the pointer to xvidtune. Interesting little app. |
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QUESTION: Do you know how to get the data for each monitor/video card |
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combo? So far I haven't figured out how to tell it Screen2. Seems to |
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only give me Screen0 as best I can tell. |
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I'm a bit nervous to just start trying things. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |