[nflug] A/B box, anyone?

[John Nichel]

> 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.
>

I've had the same problem you describe with a Belkin KVM switch that I
purchased in 2004 (brand new).  However, the Black Box KVM switch I'm
using now doesn't suffer that problem (it is quite a bit more expensive
than switches like the Belkin though).

-- 
John C. Nichel IV
Programmer/System Admin
Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
716.856.9675
jnichel at dotcomholdingsofbuffalo.com

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