[nflug] A/B box, anyone?

[David J. Andruczyk]

http://www.monoprice.com/products/department.asp?c_id=101

--- Stephen Burke <qfwfq at adelphia.net> wrote:

> 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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-- David J. Andruczyk


 
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