[ale] KVM switches

[James P. Kinney III]

My set up is a Belkin "Omni cube" 4 port PS2. This does require a power
brick. I have booted "live" and "dark" multiple Linux machines and even
some stinky M$ machines. The machines have been across a broad range of
stuff from an old Compaq Proliant 1500 to a P4 (on the Intel side), a
few Duron boxes up to me ULB (dual Opteron).

This gizmo has no hot key configuration to switch from the keyboard and
it emulates PS2 mouse and keyboard signals for the machines during boot.
I have a M$ wheel mouse that works perfectly and a liteon IR wireless
keyboard/PS2 mouse combo (I don't use the mouse as it is a real
stinker). All have worked perfectly. I wish the cables were more
affordable.

On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 12:16, Adrin wrote:
> My $0.02
> 
> I have used a belkin 2 port switch up until recently. It had a switch and hotkeys.  The
> Problem I had with it were the following:
> 
> 1: *NIX didn't like you using scroll lock as the hot key.
> 2: W2K and XP didn't like loosing the mouse when you
>    switched over to *NIX.  If I moved the mouse to soon
>    when coming back I was screwed. (Have to reboot.)
> 3: I also noticed that if you boot a windows box with the
>    switch away from it, you will not have a mouse installed.
> 
> I have a need for more ports now. So I got a 4 port.
> It is an IO gear Model GCS614A.
> 
> 1: when they say PS2 they mean it. USB to PS2 doesn't work 100%
> 2: Only hot keys.  So far no problem though.
> 3: Now the mouse wheel isn't working in Gnome.. grrrr.
> 
> Adrin
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of Trey
> > Sizemore
> > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:36 AM
> > To: ALE
> > Subject: [ale] KVM switches
> >
> >
> > I know there was some discussion on this a while back, but I can't for
> > the life of me find them or remember which month(s) they occured in the
> > archives.  I've got 3 machines (p200, p2 400, and a p4 2.8GHz) that I
> > would like to share keyboard, mouse, video (hence the KVM switch ;-))
> >
> > I've not used one of these before, so I just wanted to know what to look
> > for and what to look out for.  My current keyboard is PS/2, mouse is USB.
> >  My P4 has both ports as does the P2.  The older Pentium 200 is socked
> > away, so I can't remember if it has USB or not.  Should I get a KVM
> > switch with PS/2 then, just to be safe?  I have the USB to PS/2 adapter
> > that came with the mouse.
> >
> > Also, is the switching done by hardware or software (and if software, are
> > Linux systems supported well?)?
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback.
> > --
> >   Trey Sizemore
> >   trey at fastmail.fm
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ale mailing list
> > Ale at ale.org
> > http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> >
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
-- 
James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics)
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part