New LCD Monitor, not a problem

[Dotan Cohen]

> This is not a problem, I just felt like sharing. After using a CRT for
> many years I picked up a 25" LCD Monitor with a native resolution of
> 1920x1080. Now, I have 4 computers, all sharing a monitor, keyboard, and
> mouse via a KVM. 2 of them are Windows XP, and two of them are Kubuntu.
> Well, I disconnect the old CRT, connect the new LCD, and all I see are
> error messages. But for Kubuntu, all I had to do was reboot, and X
> reconfigured itself, so that all I had to do was go into settings and
> set the resolution to 1920X1080. But it was a major pain in the butt
> trying to get Windows XP to work. The supplied driver disk was Vista
> only (what is up with that?), and I had to try various resolutions to
> find something that would make the error message go away. I finally got
> them running, but this was definitely Linux FTW, in my book. Kubuntu -
> It Just Works.
>

Have you tried connecting the windows machine without the KVM? Those
are problematic, especially Belkin units.

But I must agree, the table certainly have turned. Today it is easier
to set up hardware in Ubuntu than in Windows. When was the last time
you tried to configure a printer in Windows? Ouch!

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Dotan Cohen

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