Re: [Avid-L2] Extenders for z800s?

Matt,

We ARE using Wacoms on most of the Avids here. I haven't had any complaints about lag at all. Very curious.
In order to get the Wacom to work, I went in to the USB set up area, and turned OFF Wacom support, and then manually added the Device ID (from a list).
Ours are run directly from CPU to edit bay - we don't go through a switch at all. (Avocent keeps wanting to sell me that option - hehe)

Which USB over cat5 did you go with? Do you find you need to reboot it often?

Jeff

On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Mathew Sherman wrote:

> Hey Jeff, are you using a Wacom tablet with your HMX2050s? I tried and
> the response was too laggy. Not terrible by millisecond standards but
> enough milliseconds to be rejected by the users and I had to agree, as
> an editor I wouldn't like it either. I got the latest firmware from
> Avocent (even tried some beta stuff). Avocent claims others are working
> with it but I find that hard to imagine. Are you?
>
> I also gave up on Gefen- we had a few of the CAT5-5500 and monitors
> would often not come up or go out for no apparent reason and we even had
> one unit repaired at least twice and I hate running six cables with I
> can use one with Avocent. But I'd like to use the tablet. To get by we
> are running a separate USB over cat5 extender that seems to do the
> trick.
>
> Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Jeff Hedberg
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 3:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Extenders for z800s?
>
> I gave up on the Gefen extenders. They required too much rebooting.
> We have switched over to Avocent extender boxes. They are not cheap, and
> they are a bit of a pain to setup the first time. However, they are rock
> solid as far as doing their job. They just work. HMX 2050 and HMIQDHDD.
> Here is one criticism of them though - if you have different editors who
> all want to swap USB input devices on them - they become a pain.
> They support a generic keyboard and mouse fine - but if you have a
> Kensington trackball user, and a wacom pen user (and maybe a different
> model of wacom...) you have to go in to it with a terminal program (over
> a serial port) and manually add the item to the extender box.
>
> Having said this - we only use 1 model of wacom, and if it's not
> connected it doesn't care. But when I have to swap it out for a
> trackball, I need to re-program the extender.
>
> But, like I said - get past this original setup, and they are great.
> They just keep working like you'd expect them to. :) Two monitors at
> 1920 X 1200, audio and USB over one ethernet cable.
> I have no problems with the display port to DVI converter in this setup.
>
>
> Jeff
>
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 5:27 PM, Dave Spraker wrote:
>
> > Ordered some new Gefen CAT5-5500HD extenders to go with new z800s but
> > they really don't work with the display port to DVI converter.
> >
> > Anybody have a good working solution that they like.
> >
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