[TriLUG] OT: Monitor/KVM problems

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 14:38, Lisa C. Boyd wrote:

> Hm. Good place to start - in the manual :) I'll check that too, and 
> possibly there's some information in the KVM manuals. My husband set up the 
> switch for me so I don't know what all is going on with that.

Lisa,

One other thing to check out would be your VGA cables.  I had 
a lot of problems with my KVM switch until I switched to
"triple-shielded" vga cables.  The only problem with them (at least
when I bought them 3 years ago) is that they're fairly expensive
(on the order of $40-$50/cable).  Without them, however, at least
on normal monitors, at higher resolutions I got very bad moire 
patterns.  What you're seeing could be a similar sort of thing
(but it's whatever an lcd does instead of doing moires).

Tanner
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