[TriLUG] OT: Monitor/KVM problems

[Henryk M. Kowalski, MD]

One thing to consider is re-running your X configuration while connected to 
the monitor through the switch. (Xconfigurator from command line console 
(Ctrl+Alt+F2...) under Mandrake or RedHat).  Worth a try...

--hmk

On Tuesday 14 May 2002 02:42 pm, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> 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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