Re: Using a Keyboard/Monitor switch with DEC AlphaStation

["Wes Bauske" <wsb paralleldata com>]

Eric Brown wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to set up RedHat 5.2 on a DEC AlphaStation 200.  However, when
> I connect the AlphaStation to my monitor switch (a Rose ServeView 4), the
> keyboard doesn't work quite right when booting from SRM (in particular,
> the backslash/pipe key doesn't work), and the keyboard doesn't work at
> *all* when booting into MILO (e.g., the caps lock generates an 'm',
> the 'a' key generates a 2).  The Alpha appears to work OK when connected
> to a real keyboard, but I don't have the space for two keyboards.
> 
> (The mouse and monitor functions work just great, by the way.)
> 
> Now, the switch works *fine* with the other three x86 machines; is there
> any way to get the Alpha to work, or am I going to have to use a serial
> console?
> 

I use a KVM switch for both my PC164 and PC164LX.
No problems...

They use ARC and AlphaBios though, not SRM.


Wes