KVM recommendations?

[Stuart Biggerstaff]

Another vote for one NOT to use--the Protec Bytelan switches.  We have two 
of them, and they actually work quite well with Windows NT, except if there 
is any kind of power problem with the switch, in which case the mouse stops 
working.

Where I had a problem is with X Windows, in this case on a Mandrake 6.0 
system (running KDE, but I think we may have had the same problem with 
other desktops, too).  As I recall, it didn't accept either keyboard or 
mouse input properly.  Even more problematically, once Linux was booted to 
a GUI, it wouldn't switch to another computer.  Then again, they are fine 
with any CLI--DOS, Linux, OS/2, and our Linux systems are servers, so we 
just used this as an excuse to not even install X.

At 09:40 AM 6/4/02 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>Be careful if you choose a "cheap" one, as I bought two that don't work at
>all.  They'd be better off as Video switches.



Stuart Biggerstaff

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