Re: Wheezy on PC with KVM PS/2 VGA (keyboard video mouse) freeze
On 05/12/13 19:30, Sevilla Larry Debian wrote:
Installed Debian 7.0 Wheezy on a PC.
This PC is one of 4 PCs attached to KVM (keyboard video mouse).
KVM is PS/2 for keyboard and mouse and VGA for video.
It starts up normally.
Once I switch to other PCs and go back to this PC, the PC with Debian
freeze. And I cannot switch to other PCs.
Are there some settings in Debian 7.0 Wheezy so that it will be KVM
friendly?
Note that the same PC running Windows XP have no problem with KVM.
What is your KVM make and model?
Several years ago I went through a half dozen buy, try, return cycles
with KVM's until I finally found one that worked correctly with Windows,
Linux, and *BSD -- IOGEAR GCS78. I never found operating system
solutions to the problems the various units had; it's the firmware in
the KVM that matters.
I later needed an adapter to convert the KVM's PS/2 mouse and PS/2
keyboard to USB for a laptop, and settled on the IOGEAR GUC100KM.
Since that time, the GUC100KM was redesigned and the new model doesn't
work as reliably as the old one.
I've recently discovered that the KVM doesn't pass EDID information
between the video card and monitor, which is a problem for Debian
systems with NVIDIA graphics and the nouveau X driver:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2013/04/msg00368.html
So, I'm due for a new KVM.
What KVM's are other people using, and how well do they work with PS/2
and USB mice, PS/2 and USB keyboards, VGA, DVI-D, DVI-I, and DP
graphics, sound, and microphones?
David
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