kvm switch
Kendall Shaw
that it works with freebsd?
I have an iogear kvm switch from around the last time I asked this
question here years back, that has usually worked with linux, netbsd,
openbsd, macos and windows. Back then to work with freebsd, each time I
switched away and back I would login remotely and issue a command to get
freebsd to recognize the keyboard again.
The newer version of my kvm switch says it has mouse and keyboard
emulation, but I can't get a straight answer out of them if that means
the OS can tell that they keyboard has disconnected or not. Do you know?
Or do you know of a KVM switch, that does that and is suitable for an
impoverished person's home computing needs?
Also, I read someone's comment on newegg that the mouse emulation only
emulates 2 buttons. Do you know if that is true?
Kendall
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Olivier Nicole
> Do you have a kvm switch that does mouse and keyboard emulation and know
> that it works with freebsd?
I have been using Aten KVM switches for years and been very happy with
them.
On FreeBSD, the machine is only in console mode, pure TTY. But there
are a couple of Linux boxes connected to the KVM, using some type of X
window. Switching from one machine to another and back does not need
to reissue any command.
To my knowledge it works with 3 button mouses (all mouses nowdays have
3 buttons).
They have a complete range, from 2 to 8 (or 16?) ports, high end
allowing cascading up to 256 CPU on one screen. I have been using only
8 ports, but I beleive their 2 ports are just as reliable. They come
with PS/2 or USB keyboard and mouse, I have used only PS/2 so far.
Olivier
Brad Mettee
works fine with FreeBSD (and Windows). I've never seen it screw up the
mouse or keyboard through hundreds of changes.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817394048 (4 port model)
You buy cables as you need them in pairs of PS/2 or USB. One cable supports
two computers.
At 11:16 PM 1/19/2009, you wrote:
>Do you have a kvm switch that does mouse and keyboard emulation and know
>that it works with freebsd?
>
>I have an iogear kvm switch from around the last time I asked this
>question here years back, that has usually worked with linux, netbsd,
>openbsd, macos and windows. Back then to work with freebsd, each time I
>switched away and back I would login remotely and issue a command to get
>freebsd to recognize the keyboard again.
>
>The newer version of my kvm switch says it has mouse and keyboard
>emulation, but I can't get a straight answer out of them if that means
>the OS can tell that they keyboard has disconnected or not. Do you know?
>Or do you know of a KVM switch, that does that and is suitable for an
>impoverished person's home computing needs?
>
>Also, I read someone's comment on newegg that the mouse emulation only
>emulates 2 buttons. Do you know if that is true?
>
>Kendall
>
>
>
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Mike Clarke
> I have been using Aten KVM switches for years and been very happy
> with them.
[snip]
> To my knowledge it works with 3 button mouses (all mouses nowdays
> have 3 buttons).
I have an Aten CS64A PS/2 4 port KVM <http://preview.tinyurl.com/yte4et>
and it works fine with my 3 button mouse, supporting all 3 buttons and
the scroll wheel. I've had FreeBSD, linux, Win98, XP and Vista boxes
running through it at various times over the last 2 years and it's
always worked just fine.
My only minor niggle was that if I booted my FreeBSD box while the
monitor was connected to one of the other boxes then KDE started up in
1024x768 mode instead if the monitor's default 1280x1024 mode. But that
was easily sorted with a minor tweak to xorg.conf.
--
Mike Clarke
Chad Perrin
> Do you have a kvm switch that does mouse and keyboard emulation and know
> that it works with freebsd?
>
> I have an iogear kvm switch from around the last time I asked this
> question here years back, that has usually worked with linux, netbsd,
> openbsd, macos and windows. Back then to work with freebsd, each time I
> switched away and back I would login remotely and issue a command to get
> freebsd to recognize the keyboard again.
>
> The newer version of my kvm switch says it has mouse and keyboard
> emulation, but I can't get a straight answer out of them if that means
> the OS can tell that they keyboard has disconnected or not. Do you know?
> Or do you know of a KVM switch, that does that and is suitable for an
> impoverished person's home computing needs?
>
> Also, I read someone's comment on newegg that the mouse emulation only
> emulates 2 buttons. Do you know if that is true?
I have an IOGEAR GCS632U -- a two-port USB KVM switch. It works great
for me, but be forewarned that using a wireless mouse-and-keyboard set
that both uses the same USB dongle as the receiver for both IO devices it
probably won't work very well. Even though I have a mouse and keyboard
that are part of a matched set using the same dongle, I have to use a
different mouse with that keyboard so I can plug the mouse into the mouse
port on the KVM switch and the keyboard's wireless dongle into the
keyboard port on the KVM switch. Otherwise, it works great -- I just hit
scroll lock twice, and it switches between a FreeBSD desktop tower and an
MS Windows desktop tower.
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be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because
of the possibility that he is right."
Bobby
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:16:28PM -0800, Kendall Shaw wrote:
> > Do you have a kvm switch that does mouse and keyboard emulation and know
> > that it works with freebsd?
> >
> > I have an iogear kvm switch from around the last time I asked this
> > question here years back, that has usually worked with linux, netbsd,
> > openbsd, macos and windows. Back then to work with freebsd, each time I
> > switched away and back I would login remotely and issue a command to get
> > freebsd to recognize the keyboard again.
> >
> > The newer version of my kvm switch says it has mouse and keyboard
> > emulation, but I can't get a straight answer out of them if that means
> > the OS can tell that they keyboard has disconnected or not. Do you know?
> > Or do you know of a KVM switch, that does that and is suitable for an
> > impoverished person's home computing needs?
> >
> > Also, I read someone's comment on newegg that the mouse emulation only
> > emulates 2 buttons. Do you know if that is true?
I am using a Trendnet TK-207 USB switch and it works very well with my system.
It switches between FreeBSD and Vista, and I use a zBoard keyboard with my
mouse plugged in through the keyboard. I don't have any problems with this
KVM, it works greaat.