[nflug] A/B box, anyone?

[Stephen Burke]

I recently shuffled a couple of machines around here, and I am thinking 
that one in particular could be much more useful if I could control it 
from this keyboard and mouse, since the screen is close enough, but 
switching chairs every time I want to do something will get tedious very 
quickly.

I have an A/B box from a brief experiment a few years ago when I had to 
connected up to a couple of boxes running win2k and RH 7.2 (maybe more 
than a few years now ;-)). That setup ended alomst immediately because 
while I could switch in and out of 2k, the RH 7.2 machine would always 
lose both mouse and keyboard every time I switched to 2k.

I'm done with 2k now (thankfully), so the systems I'd be switching 
between here would be edgy and pclinuxos 0.93a, though that could change 
if other distros worked better, or at all.

So, before I dive back into the spaghetti, I'm wondering if anyone here 
has had any successful experience with linux and A/B boxes. Will it 
work? Are certain distros more friendly with such devices?

RH 7.2 was quite a while ago by now, so I'm hoping that maybe things 
might work better these days, but I'm not sure if anyone even uses them 
enough anymore to bother fixing that.

Thanks,
S.

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