"modern" KVM that works?

[David Rysdam]

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:
> The two vendors I avoid like the plague are IOGear and Belkin. 

I see Richard gave me a link to a StarTech. I don't know IOGear, but I
thought Belkin was OK back in the day. I should have come here first.

> That said other than that, one feature you want to explore is how to
> switch from 1 system to the other. The belkin I had at work gave be
> terrible video and I could not use their auto switch
> capability. Bought one from Cable and Wireless. It worked find and got
> good resolution videa. But every KVM has a different way to switch.

This is a very good point. This IOGear wasn't bad, since its default
switch was to press scroll-lock twice (I've never seen any application
ever that used scroll-lock for anything, so that should be
safe). However, the other mode was to press ctrl twice. Horrors, for an
emacs user.

All of this is complicated by me not doing a lot of the gruntwork
myself. I'm trying to get my 15-year-old programmer hardware-trained and
I frequently find that the most basic instruction ("try booting it when
you're set to that KVM input") somehow ends up with breaking out
needlenose pliers to fix a connector....