On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Beartooth TpBkR<beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:42:01 -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote: > >> Beartooth TpBkR wrote: > [...] >>> I think I'm going to have to shut everything down, take the >>> problem machine off the switch, and re-tinker with all three >>> peripherals connected directly to it -- the way I quit having to do >>> installs and upgrades three or four releases ago. >>> >>> Is there a less tedious way?? >>> >> Problem is that KVM switches emulate monitor keyboard and mouse to the >> computers. This is because default BIOS settings prevent the computer >> from booting if the keyboard/monitor aren't present > > What is odd is that throughout the last two or three Fedora > releases, if not longer, these upgrades have succeeded with the KVM > switch in place. > >> -- and ps/2 mouse >> connectors are generally sucky and don't accept a mouse if it was >> plugged in after the computer booted (could be a winderz problem, >> actually...). > > Everything has been USB rather than PS/2 for a year or three. > >> Anyway, your KVM switch tells your machine that the monitor resolution >> is 1400x1050 and F11 happily obeys (thinking the resolution info is >> real). > > That certainly sounds right; but why is it only doing it now, > after having refrained during previous upgrades?? > >> Setting it to 1680x1050 (only, no other resolutions!) in xorg.conf >> should normally make it work. You'll need to restart X -- and for that, >> you may need to reboot the machine. If you can't reboot, you can change >> runlevel to 3 and then back to 5: >> # init 3 >> [... wait a little for console to settle down ...] # init 5 > > Went there, did that -- some days ago. No joy. > -- You could try adding Option "NoDDC" to the devices section of the xorg.conf. This fixed a similar problem we had with RHEL5 and a dell kvm. Regards, Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
