I have a problem with my IOGear DVI/USB KVM switch, in which it fails to correctly emulate the connected monitor on DVI ports that aren't selected for display. That is, if my monitor is showing my MacBook Pro's screen, then Fedora gets the wrong display info from the KVM. If it is displaying Fedora, then the Mac gets the wrong info. In both cases it is easy to correct, but really annoying. It means that I can't boot both computers simultaneously, because the video on one of them will surely get screwed up. The problem that I have when the KVM is showing the Mac screen, is that the X11 for the Gnome Display Manager - the Fedora graphical login - has a much lower resolution than my LCD monitor possesses. You know what happens when you lower the resolution on an LCD - its get all blurry. Logging in and then trying to set the resolution with Gnome's display preference does not work at all. What does work is to log in, then immediately log back out. The new instance of GDM that is created after logout will have the correct resolution. Now my question for all of you: Is there some rational way that I can just hard-wire my X11 resolution to a single, fixed value? I have an LCD display, and I don't use any other monitors. I have no reason to ever want any resolution than the fixed resolution of that one display. Now and then I check IOGear's website for KVM firmware updates, but so far they haven't released any. Some day I'll contact their tech support. What is really odd is that Mac OS X has a completely *different* problem: OS X sets the display resolution correctly even if the KVM is showing Fedora, but the OS X login user interface will be on my MacBook Pro's internal screen. If my Mac boots with the KVM connected to it and not Fedora, the login UI is correctly displayed on my external LCD display. To fix the Mac problem, I yank the DVI cable off the Mac, wait for the the built-in screen to readjust itself, then plug the DVI cable back in. At that point the login screen will switch from the internal screen to the external one. Thanks! Don Quixoet -- Don Quixote de la Mancha quixote@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.dulcineatech.com Dulcinea Technologies Corporation: Software of Elegance and Beauty. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
