Hi<br>Thanks for your advice Sorensen<br>William<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 20/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lennart Sorensen</b> <<a href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org">lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 03:37:17PM +0300, Kihara Muriithi wrote:<br>> I am shopping for a rack console and from the look of it, its not that
<br>> easy to get the pertinent details. For example most specs sheet don't tell,<br>> for example the maximum ports the monitor can handle, OS compatibility etc.<br>> Is it necessary to worry about or are these details determined by the KVM
<br>> switch? If anyone here has done this shopping, what would one recommend -<br>> i.e the best deal.<br><br>Well my experience has shown that some units do a terrible job emulating<br>a ps/2 mouse, which unfortunately an awful lot of units still think is
<br>the correct way to run a mouse. Really what you want is USB for the<br>mouse since it is supposed to be hotplugable and the systems don't mind<br>a usb mouse appearing and disappearing. Something that supposed DVI
<br>might be starting to be relevant with the way monitors are going. Of<br>course it should preferably do both analog and digital on DVI so that it<br>works with everything, although if you have a digital only monitor then
<br>the systems better all do that of course. Not sure if servers have<br>started having DVI yet. Some units support remote access via ethernet<br>or such, which I guess is handy for some people (never tried such a<br>thing myself), and some allow multiple units to be linked so that the
<br>keyboard shortcuts pass through multiple units as if they were all one<br>large KVM. For compatibility, the only issue I have ever seen is with<br>the ps/2 mouse port. I guess the choice of keys for the keyboard<br>
shortcuts could be an issue on some, but they usually offer a few<br>choices so you can pick something that doesn't interfere with keys you<br>need.<br><br>--<br>Len Sorensen<br>--<br>The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings:
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