KVM switch and monitor configuration.

Hi All,

I have a couple of machines that are kconnected to KVM switches so they can share their input devices & monitors with other machines.

This leads to a couple of issues.

  1. If the KVM is not switched to that machine at boot time, X defaults to a standard lower resolution than the monitor is capable of.
  2. If the machine screen saves, and then turns the monitor off when not selected, then it will not turn back on again even if I switch back to that machine.

2 can be partially mitigated by turning off power management in the screensaver settings but this has to be done for every user, is there a more global way of doing this.

Both machines are using the Nvidia driver on a GT710 card.

Is there a way of probing for the monitor’s settings once and recording those so the machine doesn’t have to keep probing for them?

Cheers.

Phill.