On 05/16/2013 03:41 AM, Lester Caine wrote:

> These days even LINUX has real problems working with perfectly serviceable kit.
> I have to move cables around to reboot the machines on the network here because
> Linux now refuses to allow me to reset the graphics cards without a direct
> connection to the monitors, and replacing the KVM switch is currently something
> I can't afford to do even if I could find one that WILL work :( OH and XP now
> shuts down the desktop graphics card if no monitor is attached, so all the
> display controllers had to be stopped from allowing windows updates ...
> something which the on site IT will not allow.

Sounds like display hot plug support.
I had a perfectly working setup: Linux, 2 x nvidia Quadro 4000, 4 x
monitors.
I would power the monitors off when I was done for the day.
Then nvidia enabled the display hot plug support now I can't turn them
off without loosing up my desktop.

The Win7 machines at the office have a similar issue where they may
power off the monitors at night and in the morning the sequence has
changed because they powered them on in a difference sequence. So the
primary display may be on the left today but tomorrow it is on the right.

> Progress seems to be backwards? But should the customer be liable for the bill?
>