I have been using a Tripp-Lite 2 port KVM switch now for about 3 years with a whole different combination of platforms and have yet to run into a problem.
Len On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 08:48, D. Joe Anderson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:15:13PM -0700, Cameron Mura wrote: > > > there may be many O and PyMOL users who use stereo with a monitor > > connected through a KVM switch? > > > >3) would be nice if the KVM, linux boxes, and USB mouse were all > > >interoperable. Reason i point this out is that the logitech USB mouse > > >i had been using w/ the FC4 box freaked-out (at least on the FC4 box) > > >after being plugged-in (via USB<-->PS/2 adapter) to the PS/2 connector > > >of a Belkin KVM switch (the popular OmniView SOHO F1DS104T model)... > > I've found that when switching amongst Linux boxes with a > two-port Belkin OmniView PS/2-VGA KVM that I have to switch out > of X Windows and into a virtual terminal and then back to X > Windows before the pointer and mouse will work well again > together. So, in terms of specific keystrokes, that is for > example Ctrl-Alt-F1 to switch from X to virtual terminal 1, and > then Alt-F7 to switch back to X (though of course X is at Alt-F5 > on various live CDs like KNOPPIX). > > I'm in the process now of deploying KVMs more widely for general > use, using a mix of connectors, including USB-VGA KVMs with > Dell-Dell combinations and Dell-Mac combinations with and > without USB-to-PS/2 and PS/2-to-USB adapters , and in one case, > using a (rather pricey, but seems to work OK) DVI-USB KVM to > switch between a G4 and a G5 PowerMac. > > I have not run any quad-buffered stereo through any of the KVMs, > yet, but hope to get the chance to do that (even if just in full > screen mode, or in Linux if/when the drivers catch up) on the G5 > PowerMacs we're deploying now. I'd also appreciate reading > about experience with this that anyone has had. -- Leonard M. Thomas Ph.D. Howard Hughes Medical Institute X-ray Laboratory Manager California Institute of Technology thoma...@caltech.edu Division of Biology, 114-96 626-395-2453 Pasadena, CA 91125 http://www.br.caltech.edu/cmclab
