[H-GEN] using one monitor with 2 pc's

[David Seikel]

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 11:23:20 +1000 Sandra Mansell
<fakungabubu at gmail.com> wrote:

> James Collins wrote:
> > They're not always the most reliable things in the world
> > though! :) ...
> 
> That's definitely true. We've found that ours won't work with 
> motherboards using an i810/i815 chipset. Not quite sure why either. 
> (Everything works except the mouse when using those chipsets. Makes
> it redundant for what we bought it for in those instances.)

Mice and mice drivers are sometimes quite fussy.  They like to be able
to talk to one another at boot time.  Some of the expensive digital
KVMs have circuitry in them that pretends to be a mouse to the computer
that doesn't have the real mouse switched to it for exactly this reason.

On the other hand, mechanical monitor switches will eventually have
their contacts grow dirty on you and introduce more and more video
noise.
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