28 Oct
2008
28 Oct
'08
6:56 a.m.
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, der Mouse wrote:
Bingo! That was the ticket. The one thing I didn't try was leaving the
adapter box connected to the mouse and keyboard ports (which was indeed
responsible for "activating" the port) and connecting video from one of my
13w3 adapters to the KVM port instead of trying to pass video through
the Sun adapter. Now, I have keyboard, mouse and video :-).
Next mystery: Why on earth won't this work with video going through the
Belkin adapter? I did note that the options offered all use vertical
refresh rates well north of 60Khz (fast for an LCD), but since I have more
reasonable ones selected in software for both console and X server I
thought those would preside anyway.
Is it possible that the DIP switch settings on the Belkin adapter are
overriding this to ill effect? Anyone familiar enough with Sun internals
to know which presides?
Steve
--
[...] I've
been battling to get my Sun Ultra-60 video switchable
through a Belkin 8-port KVM switch. [...]
In case it helps, I have a Belkin 8-port (might even be the same model
as yours) and my impression is that the KVM's idea of whether something
is connected is driven off voltage on the keyboard connector. For
example, if I have the KVM switched to a machine and everything's
working, then I pull the keyboard connector, the relay clicks and the
video goes away, even though I haven't touched the video connections.