On February 10, 2006 07:05, OOzy Pal wrote: > Hi > > I have two computer one Linux and one XP. I would like > to use one keyboard and one mouse. I googled and found > something called KVM switch. > > Can you recommend a switch that work with MDK and XP > > OOzy > > > Regards, > OOzy > > What is the purpose of life?
I have a Zonet 3004, switching between an XP machine (groan, my boss made me do it), a Mandrive 10.1 machine, and an IPCop machine (firewall). Works great with all of them. The only issue I've had is with screen resolutions: If I boot the XP machine with the KVM switched to another machine, it boots with only 640x400x8 resolution. Which is probably a reasonable fallback when it can't find a monitor to determine the supported resolution. The problem is it locks it at that as the maximum resolution, and won't let me slide it back to 1280x1024x24. I have to reboot to get my normal resolution back. The funny thing with Mandriva 10.1 is that it kind of does the opposite: even though my monitor is 1280x1024x24, if I boot with it switched to the Mandriva machine, it will only give me 1024x768x24 (but KDE settings is convinced that it's still at 1280x1024, and so won't let me fix it). If I boot with it switched to a different machine, it'll give me the 1280x1024 that I want. Weird, huh? It drove me crazy trying to figure out why the resolution kept jumping back and forth from one boot to the next. The KVM is actually only rated for 1024x768 (they didn't tell me this before I bought it), but it works fine with 1280x1024. And 10.1 was doing this before I bought the KVM (sometimes I would boot without turning the monitor on), and it did it with two different monitors (a Dell CRT and an HP flat screen). The good thing is that the Mandriva bug and the XP bug work together: I switch the KVM to the XP machine and boot both of them, and reverything is fine. And for those out there who are asking why I bother to boot the Mandriva machine all the time, it's not a bad Windoze habit. I just have an aversion to burning 300 watts all night when the machine is doing nothing. It's like leaving 5 lights on all night. Plus if I leave 10.1 booted for more than a couple of weeks, I start getting klauncher failures that keep me from opening any new windows, or even new browser tabs. -- Ron ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net Opinions expressed here are all mine. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
