On 2/11/10 2:57 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
Just a question here... and I believe that I'm right in saying that
this will not work, but here goes.... my monitor has VGA & DVI
connections, can these be used to hook up 2 macs? and simply switch
between the two via the monitor buttons on the front?
Yes, with a caveat...some (mostly quite older) macs need to think
they're connected to a monitor before they'll properly boot.
Shouldn't be a problem in this case as both computers will be connected
to the monitor simultaneously. This isn't like a dumb KVM switch. The
monitor would have to have both interfaces active independently as they
are two different interfaces.
The modern style KVM switches don't have this problem either, AFAIK they
present the monitor info to each computer whether the monitor is
switched to that computer or not.
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