From: "LiteStar numnums" <litestar@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Planning a two-machine heterogeneous LAN
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:14:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <283f5df10607100214k2ffd551dob45d15a008341f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56363d1331a640d0e6455424d51a6e6a@mail.gmx.net>
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I'm not so sure about that, since the KVMs I have here are 'powerless', yet
work fine with
everything I've thrown at them (including FreeVMS & colorFORTH). Plan9 is
equally
congenial with the switches I have here, but obviously your mileage will
vary.
On 7/10/06, Sascha Retzki <sretzki@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > i use a kvm switch.
>
> KVM-switches are great, however I have spotted two different 'versions'
> out there - the onces doing PS2/emulation (or rather, caring about PS/@ in
> any way) and the onces that don't. The problem is the mouse - if you switch
> from e.g. Plan9 to Windows on a 'cheap' KVM-switch, you may notice that
> the mouse does not work for a second or two - and when you switch back, you
> will notice that the mouse does not work completely anymore. I have both
> versions of such switches here, the onces which 'don't work with Plan9' are
> not connected to the power-grid, maybe that is an indication (no powergrid,
> no PS/2-emulation).
>
> I must admit I am not familar with the PS/2 specifications, so I have no
> idea about the why.
>
>
--
Lead thou me on, O Zeus, and Destiny,
To that goal long ago to me assigned.
I'll follow and not falter; if my will
Prove weak and craven, still I'll follow on.
-- Epictetus
He who enters his wife's dressing room is a philosopher or a fool. -- Balzac
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-10 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-09 18:15 Richard Uhtenwoldt
2006-07-09 23:21 ` quanstro
2006-07-10 0:28 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-07-10 7:41 ` Sascha Retzki
2006-07-10 9:14 ` LiteStar numnums [this message]
2006-07-10 15:15 ` Ronald G Minnich
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