On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Jason Gilbert wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:28:04AM +0100, Martin Stricker wrote:
> > Jason Gilbert wrote:
> >
> > > I'm not sure if it's related, but I noticed a problem when plugging a
> > > KVM in after the machine had booted (it's setup for serial console).
> > > If the KVM was plugged in when the machine booted everything is fine.
> > > I have not really investigated it though.
> >
> > This is the expected behavior if there was no keyboard/mouse plugged
> > into the computer at bootup - it's not detected by BIOS and/or OS, so
> > the resource is not used.
>
> In practice this is not true. When plugging the keyboard and display directly
> into the machine after boot everything works fine. I'm not using a mouse. I
> would not expect the PS/2 mouse to work, however I would expect the keyboard and
> video to work. Whether or not it's good to be 'hotplugging' these devices is a
> different issue.
Not trying to start some kind of religious war but as a real world datapoint
I have been hot plugging PS/2 keyboards and mice since the first ones came out
years ago. Never had a problem. Same with video. In my experience 99% of the
time you do not have to reboot for them to work.
As far as KVM switches go I have a 4 port one here that works just fine,
including the hot plugging of the KVM.
Maybe I am just luckey but.....
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