Rackable monitor and keyboard

[Kihara Muriithi]

Hi
Thanks for your advice Sorensen
William

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