[PLUG] KVM switch recommendations?

Chris Jantzen chris at maybe.net
Wed Sep 1 21:59:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:32:51PM -0700, Andy Davidson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 06:13:55PM -0700, Chris Jantzen wrote:
> > I have a Belkin 8-port Omniview and the one really annoying thing (I
> > believe this is the same across the entire line, as of my vintage) is
> > that it uses double tap Scroll Lock as an attention key to the
> > KVM. But Scroll Lock is used in the Linux console, and the KVM doesn't
> > always catch both...
> 
> As I am also interested in this, could you expand on what Scroll Lock
> is used for in a Linux console?  I just tried it on a Mandrake 9.1
> machine and couldn't see any effect.  Is it anything I might want to
> use? [How's that for an open-ended question? :-)]

It does what it says it does.

Play around with "ls -lR /" and the Scroll Lock key.

-- 
chris kb7rnl =->
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