kvm display issue

[Paul Newell]

Paul Newell wrote:
> Fedora-list at redhat.com:
>
> Now that I have one machine up and running on F9, I am beginning to 
> test connectivity with the rest of my LAN. While doing such, I noticed 
> an odd behavior that I did not notice in FC5.
>
> I have three Linux boxes (one F9, two FC5) connected via a Linksys 
> WRT54GL with KVM (Belkin) display/input control and working before the 
> F9 conversion of one machine (that's a separate problem). What I am 
> seeing is that if I reboot the F9 system and have the KVM set to as 
> different system, the F9 machine comes up in a screwy display mode (I 
> liken it to thinking it is displaying on the oldest display settings 
> it can find).
>
> I thought (and this may be a fallacy) that when a system rebooted it 
> used the last setting if it couldn't detect new or any hardware (my 
> assumption is that the F9 system is going "hey, there's no display").
>
> Do I need to visit my xorg.conf and do some "force magic" so that it 
> will do such under F9?
>
> I did a search of FedoraForum and found 
> "http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=184284&highlight=kvm+xorg.conf", 
> but I have to admit I really don't understand it. It seems to me it is 
> suggesting that I need to push the info into X startup and somehow 
> that seems wrong as I would think the xorg.conf should be able to 
> dictate action. But maybe the comment about "X startup" is one and the 
> same and I am just not getting it.
>
> Appreciate any help
> Paul
>
Oh #%*$, I shouldn't have used the "@" in my greeting ... my bad.