Tim: >> Not when I've looked. Most KVMs were either all PS/2 or all USB, >> inputs and outputs. Ones that were a converter in the middle were >> the least common available products, around here. John Summerfield: > Odd. I'd have thought you had ready access to Laser. I have one, PS/2 > in and 4X USB out. It's junk. Regularly locks up requiring cycling > power, a hassle as it's host-powered. It's got selection buttons, but > common keystrokes also cause it to switch. Sometimes its interaction > with the host USB causes the latter to fail. Most recently it's ceased > to work. I've come across the junk Laser brand a lot around here, I wouldn't touch it with a bargepole. But I haven't seen many models that convert. I've seen more all-USB or all-PS/2 models, on the whole, than combination models. Just luck of the draw, I suppose. I know someone who's gone through two different Laser models, one USB, one PS/2. Both suffered the same issues as you described, the USB one being far worse. Oddly, I expected it to be the other way around. PS/2 is finicky about hot plugging, and PCs can be brought to their knees by a lot of IRQ activity on the PS/2 port (for those with a cruel bent, giving someone a mouse cable with an intermittent fault is a nasty trick to play on someone). He was regularly having to pull out all the connections to get the thing to reset. Rebooting a PC might lock up all the other PCs (yep, the PCs actually locked up), or just leave them with no way to mouse or keyboard control them. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
