On Wed, 4 May 2005 01:03 pm, Randall R Schulz wrote:
For now (starting tomorrow, when the new DVI-equipped card arrives), I'll simply connect my laptop's VGA port directly to the VGA port of the flat-panel display and use the display's DVI port to connect to the new video card. I use the KVM solely to switch the keyboard while switching the display via it's front-panel controls and manually switching from one mouse to the other.
Very cumbersome, I know, but I don't tend to switch off very often.
I have a Belkin USB switch I plan to use for that. Plug both computers in the back and it selects which talks to the USB keyboard and mouse. Trouble is, it is controlled by a little software utility, which is only supplied in Mac and Windows. So I have to cook up a linux equivalent. michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 Internet Explorer is fine for downloading Firefox, but after that....