On 31 Dec, Brett Fenton wrote: > agreed ... mechanical = bad. > however i had a blackbox 4 port kvm which had this same issue. in fact > i think every one of the 4 kvm's i've ever owned has experienced it, > so spending a chunk of money on a blackbox solution (while they are > nice switches and have good resolution) won't necessarily help your > problem.
Probably true. I vaguely recall that you have to use PS/2 rather than the more intelligent IMPS/2 mouse protocol in your XF86Config (-4?) file. IIRC, the intelligent protocol can't handle being switched out, under X11. (Windows 2K seems to handle it 99.5% of the time.) However, I'll just let you know that I gave up using physical switches when one day I switched, and it killed the parallel port on the motherboard, which in fact took out the whole PC. :-( I'd say mechanical = too risky. At work nowadays I use a Belkin switchbox (not cheap: towards $300), but it works very reliably and can handle switching between USB and PS2 (necessary since one of the PCs is a Dell laptop that only has a single USB input). luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
