Hi all,

Has anyone used a KVM switch with slackware boxes (or any other dist
for that matter) and some windows boxes perhaps?

If so, did you have any issues? And what brand/model of KVM did you use?

I'm considering getting an 8 port for some of my machines.


Thanks,
Julien

Julien Mills wrote:
> If so, did you have any issues? And what brand/model of KVM did you use?

Yes, I have issues with kernel-2.6 and my KVM switch: the mouse does not
work
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Windows and Slackware with kernel-2.4 work fine
however.

Antoine

Julien Mills wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone used a KVM switch with slackware boxes (or any other dist
> for that matter) and some windows boxes perhaps?
>
> If so, did you have any issues? And what brand/model of KVM did you use?
>
> I'm considering getting an 8 port for some of my machines.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Julien
I'm using a KVM switch that works great all the time, Using Slack 9.1, 10.0,
Suse 9.1 and one Windo$ XP box and haven't had any problem so far used it
for 1.5 years.
Can't figure out the name but it looks like blue half circles around three
red dots. It was rather cheap.

Micke

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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:37:11 GMT, Julien Mills <julien@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>
>Hi all,
>
>Has anyone used a KVM switch with slackware boxes (or any other dist
>for that matter) and some windows boxes perhaps?
>
>If so, did you have any issues? And what brand/model of KVM did you use?
>
>I'm considering getting an 8 port for some of my machines.

I was using 4-port with RH 6.1, Slack 10 and Win2k.

I couldn't get my mouse wheel to work under both linux machines (If I
connected it directly to box, it worked). Win worked fine both ways.

On RH, the picture was not good, it vibrated a little. If I
disconnected Win box, it was ok. Never found out why, tried changing
cables...

Switch was "Digitus KVM Switch DCIC IC-814-I".

Igor

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:37:11 +0000, Julien Mills wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone used a KVM switch with slackware boxes (or any other dist
> for that matter) and some windows boxes perhaps?
>
> If so, did you have any issues? And what brand/model of KVM did you use?
>
> I'm considering getting an 8 port for some of my machines.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Julien

I got the cheapest two port (iogear) I could find at BestBuy, and no
problems. I run a variety of distros on both boxes, and have never noticed
a problem.

In article <slrncnq0c7.65p.julien@pluto.amorosobaking.com>,
Julien Mills <julien@nowhere.com> wrote:
>Has anyone used a KVM switch with slackware boxes (or any other dist
>for that matter) and some windows boxes perhaps?

I have an IOGear GCS632U, a small 2 port USB KVM with audio.
It's worked fine with Slackware 10 and Redhat 7.3 before that.
A WinXP box is connected to the second port, which has also worked
without incident.

Doug

Julien Mills wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone used a KVM switch with slackware boxes (or any other dist
> for that matter) and some windows boxes perhaps?
>
> If so, did you have any issues? And what brand/model of KVM did you use?
>
> I'm considering getting an 8 port for some of my machines.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Julien
I'm using StarTech 2 port, Aten 2 port and an Aten 4 port on
Windows/BSD/Unix/Linux. No problems whatsoever.

Good luck,

Huub

Julien Mills wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone used a KVM switch with slackware boxes (or any other dist
> for that matter) and some windows boxes perhaps?
>
> If so, did you have any issues? And what brand/model of KVM did you use?
>
> I'm considering getting an 8 port for some of my machines.
>

At home :
Cheapo Linksys 4 port. Works perfectly with Slack ( 9.1 ), FreeBSD and
Windows.
I did have issues when I tried using a Logitech cordless keyboard/mouse.
Windows had no problems. FreeBSD had some minor issues with the
mouse, but the keyboard was fine. Linux had intermittent issues ( but
really annoying/serious ones ) with both the mouse and keyboard. I
finally gave up + went back to the "regular" mouse + keyboard and have
had no problems at all.

At Work :
Very bad luck with Belkin KVM's. I've seen them recommended by other
people, but we just didn't have good experiences with them. The $50
Linksys models have been far more reliable for us.
We also have a couple Raritan KVM's. these are probably the nicest I've
used. If you can afford them, I highly recommend them.


--
- Matt -

Hi,
Happily using 2 port Belkin KVM switch with
Slack 10 / Win 98 DualBoot (old QDI Legend Mobo) & Win 98 (Gateway 450)

"geep" <geep(at)boursorama(dot)com> wrote:
> Happily using 2 port Belkin KVM switch with Slack 10 / Win 98 DualBoot
> (old QDI Legend Mobo) & Win 98 (Gateway 450)

I have some experiences from a 4-port Belkin KVM switch. The good news
were that the image quality was OK. The bad news were:

When using hot-key (scroll-lock, scroll-lock, number) to switch to a
computer, the number typed was fed into the Slackware computer. This meant
that I would get an extra number at the beginning of the password dialog
of xscreensaver. Or worse, if the screen wasn't locked I could get a
number into an editor.

When not using hot-keys but the toggle button, there was a pause so going
round all four PCs tock rather long time.

In XF86Config, I had to replace Mouse protocol "Auto" with "IMPS/2",
otherwise the mouse behaved strange after switching to the Slackware PC. I
was never able to solve that problem on a WinXP machine.

To sum up, the switchbox is OK thanks to the good image quality if you
don't need to change active PC very often. If you jump among the PCs alot
you might find the shortcomings annoying.

Other KVM switches which I have som experience from:

ATEN switches, they seem to have very varying image quality.

Avocent: Not as good image quality as Belkin, but seem to work better.
However, I had one user which prefered to replace his Avocent with a
Belkin. After that he replaced the Belkin with a D-Link.

D-Link: I have no experience myself from these, but two of my users like
them very much.

One more thing to say about Belkin and Avocent: There seem to be a
hardware problem with some computers. With Avocent it was not possible to
use a hot-key to switch away from a problem-computer. With Belkin, if I
remember right, the mouse didn't work every other time on the problem
computer.

regards Henrik
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