On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 18:17:39 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 6/29/05, David Gavin <dgavin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] >> BTW: I agree that Belkin KVMs are more touble than they're worth, but >> the "don't move the mouse while switching" tip may help with other >> brands also. Fwiw, I bought a generic (Vastech) unpowered KVM despite having been warned, because it was all I could find locally, and did indeed have troubles with the optical mouse -- at first. Then it settled down, or the computers got used to it, or something -- and the trouble gradually tapered off and ceased. That was last fall iirc. I've had it exactly once again recently -- after having upgraded an FC2 and an FC1 box to FC4. It is necessary, though, when you upgrade or install an OS, or swap a computer into the loop from elsewhere, or the like, to shut them all down, connect the K, V, and M all directly to the new one, and boot it once -- I believe to let kudzu find the actual hardware and not just the switch. Then I shut back down, put the K, V, & M back into the switch, and the nice combo cable onto the new or upgraded box. Presto : done. Very dumb question, though : somebody says he keeps his behind his monitor, and forgets it. How do you use it in that position?? I hit mine two or three dozen times a day, and need it not only in sight, but handy. Are we all talking about the same thing? (I run four boxes on one K, one V, and one M -- the only kind of KVM switch I know of ....) -- Beartooth Neo-Redneck, Linux Evangelist FC 1&4, YDL 4; Pine 4.63, Pan 0.14.2.91; Privoxy 3.0.3; Dillo 0.8.5, Opera 8.01, Firefox 1.0.4, Epiphany 1.0.8 Remember that I have little idea what I am talking about.
