Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:38:12 -0700 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kvm switch Message-ID: <20090121063811.GA21360@kokopelli.hydra> In-Reply-To: <1232424988.7651.20.camel@pokey.kendallshaw.com> References: <1232424988.7651.20.camel@pokey.kendallshaw.com>
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--LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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? >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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? >=20 > 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. --=20 Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Quoth Antony Jay: "In corporate religions as in others, the heretic must be cast out not because of the probability that he is wrong but because of the possibility that he is right." --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkl2wtMACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKV2mgCfbczC1EG6Zu1ZB7XGbx7HGbG0 HmcAoN2ajBYbUaBJIRYMFHOLS+lzy0yC =fttD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LQksG6bCIzRHxTLp--
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