From: "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@kjchome.homeip.net>
To: Mike Ni <cba20032002@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Share monitor/keyboard with Window
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 23:16:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40231509.8090101@kjchome.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040206013556.98201.qmail@web40403.mail.yahoo.com>
Mike Ni wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> I want to configure the linux system in a way that it
> can share the "monitor", "keyboard" & "mouse" with a
> Window system via a "KVM switch box".
>
> Instead of spending money on the monitor/keyboard, I
> thought maybe the two opeerating system can share one.
Last I checked, the KVM switch cost more than a second keyboard/mouse....
But, that said, at my last company, we tried using a KVM between 3
seperate computers: Linux, DG/UX, and NT 4. What we found was that the
NT mouse drivers and the Linux mouse drivers expected the mouse to be
configured slightly differently and that switching between them often
produced frustration that the "other" OS didn't work right ("other"
being the OS booted first, since the OS booted second would re-program
the mouse...). Most NT-users decided to stay with NT full time, and I
decided to stay with Linux full time, and use VMWare to run NT under
Linux when I needed the NT software.
--
Kevin J. Cummings
kjchome@rcn.com
cummings@kjchome.homeip.net
cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-06 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-06 1:35 Share monitor/keyboard with Window Mike Ni
2004-02-06 4:16 ` Kevin J. Cummings [this message]
2004-02-06 6:51 ` Joshua
2004-02-06 17:36 ` Mike Ni
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