Niamh
Just make sure the KVM switch will also switch your audio. Some do, some do
not.
Take care,
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Gallik" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Is there a gadget ...
Niamh (apparently) asks:
"Is there a gadget which would allow me to connect two computers to one
monitor? my problem is I am having to run a laptop and destop at work.i
don't want to ask my employer for help,but increasingly i need sighted
help and a simple switch would help."
You can purchase a device referred to as a "KVM Switch" (Keyboard, Video,
Mouse), this will permit a pair of PCs (desktop and/or laptop) to use a
single Keyboard, Video (monitor) and Mouse. Some of these KVM switches
also support a keystroke that will execute the "switch over" from one PC
to the other. Bear in mind that this will not allow for activities on
both PCs to be visible on the Video screen simultaneously, only one PC at
a time can interact with the Keyboard, Video and Mouse via this
configuration. I suppose, if it were necessary to be able to watch what
was going on both PCs the video connection could be ignored on this gadget
and regular channels could be used to utilize the monitors per each PC.
And I can't say whether or not the video output on the laptop might not
still appear on the laptop's screen in addition to the monitor connected
via the KVM (when I used my KVM Switch, it was connected to a pair of
desktops).
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