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On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:48, Josh Freeman wrote:
> I've had a couple. I had a belkin PS/2 KVM swtich, and now I have a
> MiniView USB KVM switch. All the switching is done in the box, so the
> switch is pretty much OS-agnostic. Both work very well.
> 
> the only problem I have seen is with USB, because some bioses get
> confused by the KVM switch being between the cpu and the keyboard. I
> just unplug the keyboard on boot, and plug back in once I get to grub.
> Considering how rarely I reboot, this isn't an issue for me.
> 
> Josh
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:36, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > 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.


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