Don't buy the mechanical switches, haven't found any that at best weren't a
POS.
The KVM's that have been working for me are sold by Belkin and called
OmniView's. They will work with Linux, M$, Mac, Sun etc..... They make them
in a few flavors big things to look out for are
1. Make sure it supports ps2 mice and serial mice at the same time.
2. Find out what is the max video freq/res the KVM switch will allow.
3. If your gaming at hi-rez buy the Gold series cables. (std cables work
just fine on the server farm) or you will get ghosting images.
I use the OmniView Pro at home and OmniView SE's at work on the servers.
Tony
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-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Paul M
Foster
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2001 8:21 PM
To: SLUG List
Subject: [SLUG] KVM switches
I have an application that could use a KVM switch. I've never used one
before, and apparently they come in two flavors: the rotary switch kind
(much cheaper) and the other kind, with push-button switches.
Now, I used to have a machine running RH6.2 that had a keylock on it. At
certain times, when I'd lock the machine with the key, come back and
unlock it, Linux would be completely frozen. I'd unlock the machine and
neither the keyboard nor the machine would respond to anything. I have
some concern that a KVM switch would do the same thing.
Anyone have any experience with KVM's and Linux, and whether it matters
if it's a rotary dial or push-button switch?
Paul
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