[TriLUG] KVM choices

[Brian Henning]

Just to add my two cents...

At Home:  Belkin 2-port PS/2 KVM.  Fedora Core 3 likes to lose sync with the
mouse on switching; nothing that unplugging and replugging the mouse won't
fix (though it is of course a nuisance).  Windows XP Pro seems to have
little trouble keeping track.  Been working fine for several years.
Double-tap scroll-lock hotkey sequence is a little finicky and can sometimes
result in a bit of difficulty changing the actual scroll lock state.

At previous employer: IOGear 8-port PS/2 KVM.  No operational problems
whatsoever.  Only had it about a year before I left the company, though, so
I can't speak for its longevity.  I thought its hotkey sequence (ctrl ->
shift -> alt -> # -> enter) was cumbersome and prone to being mis-typed (as
there is no feedback before enter is pressed, unlike the Belkin device which
beeps once after it detects the double-tap on scroll lock, and once more
after the port is selected) resulting in several accidental attempts to log
in to machines as "2", eg.

Haven't seen any mouse-wheel problems on either one.

~B




> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
> Behalf Of Scott Chilcote
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 8:48 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] KVM choices
>
>
> Jojo Almario wrote:
> > Is there a brand of KVM that works best with Fedora Core or Ubuntu.  I
> > have had problems with old Belkins in the past and not getting the mouse
> > to work across them after a while.
>
> I've been using an IOGear GCS12 for a couple of years and it's worked
> fine with Redhat 9 and CentOS 4.  Before that I had a Belkin 4-port
> model that cost more, worked poorly for two years and then died.  Slick
> looking doorstop.
>
> By the way, if you find one that allows the mouse wheel to work let me
> know.  When I bought mine, I couldn't find one that did.
>
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