From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 12 11:50:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA13553 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:50:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from horst.bfd.com (horst.bfd.com [204.160.242.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA13373 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:49:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Received: from harlie.bfd.com (bastion.bfd.com [204.160.242.14]) by horst.bfd.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA26509; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:49:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ejs@bfd.com) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 11:49:40 -0800 (PST) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" To: Christopher Raven cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: keyboard, mouse & monitor emulation In-Reply-To: <01bd4ded$7e900ec0$0000a8c0@admin.cian.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA13388 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Christopher Raven wrote: > Hi again, > > I am looking at the Keyzone multi port devices - these allow a single > keyboard, mouse & monitor to control multiple machines. > > My question is this - the mechanical switcher is much, much cheaper > than the auto switcher (4 ports @ (U.K.) £96 not 4 @ £595) but the > manufacturer says that servers may have problems on the mechanical > because only one machine at a time sees the mouse, kboard, etc. and so > may return errors. > > Q. Would FreeBSD stable 2.2.5 care or would it not complain once I had > the server up and "removed" the mouse, etc. ? > > I hope someone can answer this question because it will decide which > one I go for. I've used both, but not with FreeBSD. I've seen mechnical switchers blow motherboard keyboard interfaces, so I'm not hot on their use, but I'm not a doom-and-gloom type, because I've seen cases where they never caused problems either. If you do go with the mechanical switchbox, make sure all BIOS's are set up to allow booting if the keyboard is not detected. I don't know if FreeBSD will handle it if you plug in the keyboard after the fact, though. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message