KVM Help and Recommendations for FC3

Marcus O. White 1lnxraider at comcast.net
Wed Nov 16 09:51:17 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 22:53 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 23:39 -0600, Kevin Freeman wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 15:44 -0500, Matt Roth wrote:
> > > List members,
> > > 
> > > I am experiencing compatibility problems with a Belkin OmniView PRO 
> > > 8-Port KVM switch and Fedora Core 3.  Any help you could provide 
> > 
> > A few years back I tried to use an 8-port ps/2 OmniView in a rack with
> > HP servers running Windows 2000 Server.  The mouse/keyboard was not
> > being properly emulated (even though the marketing blurb stated it was)
> > and resulted in quickly losing console control after a couple of
> > switches, until we rebooted the servers.  The "emulation" was so poor
> > that servers would not boot unless the KVM was switched to the server
> > while booting (educational test, of course all server BIOS settings by
> > default ignore keyboard errors on boot, well maybe now they do ... ).  I
> > tried a replacement OmniView with the same results.  So I tried a
> > Starview (StarTech brand) 8-port model and never had a problem again.
> > Maybe Belkin still uses the same flaky hardware/firmware.
> > 
> > I never experienced a flickering screen with the above problems, just
> > loss of control.  I am sure you have verified snug cable connections.
> > And I am baffled at how a "frozen screen" on the KVM can make the server
> > lock up.  Maybe you can find a firmware update from Belkin to address
> > these issues.
> > 
> > At home I have used an IOGear 2-port USB KVM for many years with no
> > trouble at all with various flavors of Redhat / Fedora and Windows.
> > i.e. I don't think the fault lies in the OS.
> > 
> > If you want to try new hardware, this model
> > http://startech.com/ststore/itemdetail.cfm?ProductID=SV831D&mt=  appears
> > to be similar to what I have installed.
> ----
> the Belkins have a lousy reputation around here. I know because I own
> one and have to pass psmouse.proto=bare on the grub kernel line to keep
> it from going bananas which disables the wheel.
> 
> Linksys seems to work pretty well
> 
> Craig
> 
> 
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I've been using the Raritan KVW switches for several years now with
Linux, Windows, and Solaris (SPARC) without any problems. The latter
requires an adapter, also from Raritan.

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Marcus O. White <1lnxraider at comcast.net>




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