On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:29:55PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > 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. >
I'd better clarify my original remark a bit - these problems are occasional, and not necessarily related to switching machines (e.g. the last time X's display got garbled I only had one machine running, and all I'd done was turn the monitor off while I left it for a few minutes). These are just annoyances, but enought to fail my "works well" test. > 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 I don't think it's the same problem, his sounds much more regular and predictable. One of the links goes to the 'lost synchronization' bug - I have occasionally seen that in the past, but it's supposed to be fixed nowadays. My problems with spurious mouse activity in a menu bar eventually sort themselves out (a few seconds). 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
