30 Oct
2008
30 Oct
'08
6:33 p.m.
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Mr Ian Primus wrote:
Turns out that the Belkin <--> Sun interface box is simply not passing
video. It was just as easy to run video directly from the box to the KVM
input, so no big deal. The keyboard and mouse are operating fine and that
was the main issue.
I took the advice given to me in this chain of notes and build an adapter
that goes inline between my keyboard and the KVM. Two tails come out of
it with PS2 mini-DIN plugs on the ends. I can connect this to the
keyboard input of any channel where I simply want to switch video. The
Amiga works a treat now!
Thanks to everyone for the good ideas!
Steve
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--- On Wed, 10/29/08, Pete Turnbull <pete at
dunnington.plus.com> wrote:
All I can say
is that I've never had much luck with Belkin KVMs on Suns
and SGIs, or even PCs in some cases, and tend to stick to others that I
know are less picky. The best ones I found are cheap Newlink ones. I
have one here working happily with a Sun, an SGI, a PC, an Apple Mac,
an Acorn Archimedes, and a BBC micro (actually it's a 4-way KVM and the
SGI and Mac are not usually connected to it), without a PS/2 keyboard
in sight. Sadly they don't make that model any more :-(
I haven't had that good of luck with the "electronic" KVM's either.
They
tend to attempt to do too much thinking and not enough doing what
they're told. Many only work properly with PC's, and even then, I've
seen some screw up when running at really high resolutions - they just
blank out the video, even though the monitor and the computer can handle
it just fine without the KVM in the way. Also, many really want there to
be a keyboard connected, and often times I only really want to switch
the video. I guess the device I need is really just a "V", in that
case...