On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 11:23:26AM +0200, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote:
W dniu 06.05.2011 10:27, Marcin Juszkiewicz pisze:
Hi
I would like to ask about your display setups on work desks because recent changes in pandaboard kernel moves me into 'lets buy another lcd' direction...
Switching ports on panda requires powering it off in order to not damage it. Guessing which port works is not a way. Connecting panda HDMI to 24" HDMI is also no solution cause this will leave me without display for my desktop.
How you people solve that in other way then buying yet-another-lcd?
I've got ATEN CS1794 HDMI+USB KVM available here [1]. It comes with 4 fat cables for connecting HDMI, USB, Sound IN/OUT, is quite compact and optionally rack-mountable. I use it to drive my monitor+USB hub and switch between my laptop, beagle, helper desktop and PS3.
1: http://www.aten.com/products/productItem.php?pid=20090211152610001&psid=...
Best regards ZK
I have always been put off by the ridiculous prices of HDMI/DVI KVM switches. What kind of circuitry could they possibly contain that costs that much?
I believe they are just pushing the prices as high as the can get away with. They just need to keep the cost at less than buying 2/3/4 monitors (which is a very high upper bound), in order to make the deal look sweet. I would very much like to be proven wrong, but at least in my eyes it looks like a scam.
Unless space is a severely limiting factor, I would rather spend that money on buying separate screens/mice/keyboards.
Thanks, Alexandros