On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Brad Hudson wrote:
I note that you are running an alpha version of Ubuntu with the proprietary
nvidia driver. Have you tried running it with the open source nv driver?
Brad,
Can you please suggest the easiest way to switch? I have had nothing but
hassle from the nvidia driver. Or maybe it's my card dying ;-) it seems to
throw a spurious interrupt every day or sometimes more frequently, that
requires a complete X and applications restart to recover from. I suspect
the nvidia module has to get unloaded to clear this problem. (I just tried
a new nvidia driver, well see...)
What resolution are you running? Your monitor does 1920 x 1200 but the card
is not really built for this high of a res. If you are running a really high
resolution you should try using the DVI output instead of vga through a KVM.
I'd second this. I have yet to get clean 1600x1200 video ( at 75 Hz+)
through any of several KVM switches I have tried despite their box claims
to the contrary. There's often ugly ringing in the video - looks like
impedance mispatches soemwhere. So I usually connect the two inputs on my
monitor to the two computers (when I'm only using two) and using the KVM
switch for keyboard/mouse only.
I would be suprised to see anything but a really high end KVM switch pass
1920x1200 cleanly - but am eager to hear of recomendations to the
contrary from list members. I'm currently using a Trendnet TK407 with
similar (poor) results to others.
cheers,
Brett