Re:The Peculiarly Quiet Decline and Fall of the KVM
by petecox on Thursday November 30, 2017 @09:09AM
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My windows laptop has only VGA out, so I hook up a second monitor via displaylink (usb -> DVI).
I tried plugging the cable into my KVM switch and it worked okay on the Windows 10 side but there was some hot-plugging kernel panic when switching to Linux (must file a bug report!)
So perhaps the future of KVM switches doesn't need video connectors such as VGA/DVI/DP if USB-C -> HDMI (as smartphones are adopting) becomes universal.
I tried plugging the cable into my KVM switch and it worked okay on the Windows 10 side but there was some hot-plugging kernel panic when switching to Linux (must file a bug report!)
So perhaps the future of KVM switches doesn't need video connectors such as VGA/DVI/DP if USB-C -> HDMI (as smartphones are adopting) becomes universal.