First, thanks to everyone for sharing.
Ken Moffat wrote:
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).
I was afraid of that. A couple years ago a friend of mine was trying to
use a KVM switch on a RedHat system that didn't work. I think it was a
kernel issue that got fixed. That's the closest to experience I have.
So, it sounds like people have had mixed experiences, mostly positive,
though. Is there any online resource with information? Something similar
to this:
http://www.linux-usb.org/
Oh, I found this:
http://www.keylabs.com/linux/results_kvm.html
But KVMs with DVI ? - never seen one.
Here's some I found. They're not cheap. It would be nice though, since
all the components otherwise are capable. VGA would be work, so it's not
a showstopper.
http://www.kvm-switches-online.com/dvi-kvm-switch.html
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=262900
I'm also thinking about PS/2 vs. USB. Seems like the switches have one
or the other. Not a big deal there, but I want it to work. I'll probably
stick with PS/2 as that's what I know how to work with.
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Dan
P.S., Ken. Don't know if this will help, but I stumbled upon a blog
where a guy was having issues with a KVM on a MacMini using a PS/2 to
USB converter. Fix came a while back, but maybe this could help. The
guy, Hubert Figuiere, is a developer of some GNOME applications.
http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2005/03/08/110-kvm-and-linux
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