[Eclug] X and KVMs

Hi,

         thanks for that tip as well. But I have an old Cherry kezboard 
with german lazout (z and y flipped and kezs for öäüß). Since my 
correspondence is 50/50 german/english I rather not miss it, since I can 
type English easily on a german keyboard layout, the other way around it is 
just a pita. Not to play the devil's advocate here, but the KVM and wild 
switching orgies work fine on Windope, which somehow makes me believe more 
that sth in Linux isn't working the way it should.

         I looked at the prices of the Startech KVM that Bob mentioned. The 
"cheapest" I've seen it was for 73$ with the cables....grmpff. :(

                         David K.


At 12:07 PM 9/9/2006, you wrote:
>Avocent has similar cables available for their KVM's.  But I would recommend
>not buying them if your PC supports USB keyboard and mouse (most do).  Then
>all you need is a good quality VGA cable and a USB A --> B cable; a much
>less expensive option.
>
>Tim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: eclug-bounces at lists.eclug.net [mailto:eclug-bounces at lists.eclug.net]
>On Behalf Of Bob Mariotti
>Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 9:32 AM
>To: Eastern Connecticut Linux Users' Group
>Subject: Re: [Eclug] X and KVMs
>
>David Krings wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > after deciding to compare Freespire and Ubuntu I installed both on one
> > of my previous Windoze boxes. Freespire uses KDE as desktop, Ubuntu
> > uses Gnome. I have 4 PCs and use a KVM switch to access them. Each
> > time I switch away from the Freespire / Ubuntu box and then switch
> > back, the keyboard is almost dead and moving the mouse opens and
> > closes bazillion applications.I noticed this in both Freespire and
> > Ubuntu, so that it is neither a distro nor a desktop manager problem.
> > Since there isn't much else left, I guess it has to do with X.
> >
> >     Anyone has an idea on how to stop X from going bonkers when
> > switching around with a KVM?
>David;
>
>I've become Windoze free as well on my desktops.  And I've even recently
>switched my desktops from SUSE 10.x to kubuntu because of where I work
>now.  Regarding the ubuntu package management, try using their "adept"
>available from the system menu item.  I think it's better than synaptic
>(IMO).
>
>Regarding the KVM.  I had the same issues both at my office with the
>servers and at home and what works inexpensively is a KVM from
>StarTech.  I use their model SV411 which has both hot key switching as
>well as a push button on the slim box itself.  One unique feature is
>their cabling.   One end of their cables has the usual three plugs
>(DB15, 2 x PS/2) but the other end has only the DB15 which plugs into
>the KVM.  So it reduces the cable clutter by 2/3.  Nice trick.   They
>offer the cables in 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 15, + feet so you can truly
>eliminate the coils of cables if you desire.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Bob