On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 09:27:49AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > I've been looking into getting another box at home, but I really don't > have the space to support another full desktop setup. So, I figured I > could just get a KVM switch and save some space. > > The question is, can anyone recommend a model to use that will work well > with the current kernel? I'd prefer a switch that has DVI inputs since > the monitor is an LCD and both cards should be able to drive it > digitally. How do these switches interact with X? I've never used a KVM > switch before, so any information would be helpful. > For consumer-level devices, no! If you downgrade "works well" to "works fairly well", any of them, at least for PS/2. Problems I see are occasional garbled display in X (change to another resolution, if you can, or to a tty then come back) and very occasional uncontrollable bursts of mouse activity (in menu bars) for no obvious reason (perhaps once a week on one of the machines).
As Alan noted, I've got a problem with a PS/2 KVM feeding a usb-only machine (mac G5). I think it's a kernel problem, and probably doesn't affect most key layouts (we Brits seem to have an extra keycode for these glyphs) - I've got my compose key working on that box, so compose-v-l or compose-/-/ give me | and \. FWIW, my posts to usb-devel didn't get through and I haven't got around to looking at my email config to try to fix that. That box also suffers from fairly consistent excesses of vertical scroll-up events in windows and xterms, I've been assuming it's the nvidia graphics card but it could be the KVM. But KVMs with DVI ? - never seen one. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
