KVMs
Saturday, October 8th, 2005Well, this was fun, went thru a couple USB KVMs this week. Trying to get the Mac Pro keyboard switchable between the G4 Sawtooth and the Win XP machines. The IOGEAR I tried, worked great on the Mac, but did not do well (didn't do squat) on the XP machine, returned it, got the same model, hoping it was just a wonky device. No dice, both did the same thing. Got a Belkin, looked like it was going to act the same, but after getting the machine booted with the Keyboard and Trackball attached to it then attaching the KVM, it was mostly happy. Now I just don't get to use all the button on my MS Trackball optical, but that is fine, I only play WoW on the Xp box for the most part anyway so no real lose. Everything seems to work great now on the Mac, and I can use my nice pretty new Mac Pro keyboard on both machines 
only real downside is that I have to use the button on top of the KVM to switch ports instead of having a keyboard hotkey combo I could use like the old KVM.
New Keyboard
Monday, October 3rd, 2005For the record my new KVM is a IOGEAR MiniView Micro USB Plus, 2-port KVM with built-in cables and Audio Support. Model #GCS632U, nice little guy, replaced the Older IOGEAR PS/2 MiniView i was running (also with built in cables but without audio support.
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