[geeks] Unusual Problem with KVM

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Fri Jan 11 13:28:42 CST 2008


Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>> Can you "hot plug" a second mouse or keyboard into the sleeping  
>>> computer?
>> I suppose I could, but that would basically negate any convenience of
>> using the KVM switch.
>>
>> I was a bit unclear.  The machine isn't actually asleep.  It's just
>> thurned the monitor off.  The machine is still running.
> 
> If that's true, then a keypress should wake it up.
> 
> It sounds to me like something is borked.

A keypress won't wake up the computer if the KVM switch won't switch 
over to the machine.  Please read my original message.

Peace...  Sridhar



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