First post, by keenmaster486
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I bought a Belkin Omniview 8 port rack mount KVM switch from eBay the other day. This one is really nice because it has both serial and PS/2 ports for the mouse, and is able to emulate either one for any connected system no matter which type of mouse you have plugged in.
Using all high quality VGA cables, the signal coming out of it is good enough to look fine on a CRT, but when captured with OSSC and an HDMI capture card, it becomes clear that there is significant "ghosting" going on - the colors smear to the right. There are also vertical lines through the image that shouldn't be there, and the image is too bright. This is all using 320x200 resolution and compared to the raw output from the computer, which looks good on both the CRT and my capture setup.
This is coming from a Western Digital ISA VGA card in a 386.
I've tried swapping out cables, eliminating all other possibilities, and yes, it's the KVM.
Do they all do this? Are there any that don't? I really like that serial/PS2 emulation feature of the OmniView, so it would be nice to get one that has that.
Anyone have any tips for me?
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