Linkskey LKU-S04ASK Slim Palmtop KVM Switch – KVM / audio switch – USB – 4 ports – 1 local user – external Minimal, effective, and has some caveats – Seth in SF – San Francisco, Ca
I switched from a bus KVM to this. It’s simple, it’s minimal, it works fine out of the box. It includes all the cables, including audio.
Small caveat: It uses a special, 3-headed cable. the end at the KVM has one connector instead of a USB and a video as I expected. the end at the computer has two, of course.
Also, as you’d expect, it only has 15-pin VGA connectors. If you need to connect to a DVI port you’ll need an adapter. Fortunately, these adapters are common and cheap.
Some special caveats. These may be common to all USB KVMs, or at least the lower-end ones (I can see needing some decent USB firmware on the KVM to avoid them):
* The video switches quickly, but the keyboard and mouse aren’t available for about 5 seconds
* If you have a DirectInput app running on the machine you are switching *to*, it may get a little confused when you arrive and the USB keyboard and mouse suddenly seem to be alive. It freezes up Lord of the Rings Online for 20 seconds or so every time.
* I’m using a bus keyboard through a bus-to-USB adapter, so this may be an artifact of that, but the media keys (play, mute, volume down, etc.) don’t work. Some apps see them as different keys altogether, which is potentially bad. It also really hurts to lose the media keys, which I use a lot (mostly mute/unmute). I’m hoping getting a USB keyboard will resolve that.
* The hotkeys for switching require that the computer you are switching *from*:
– be running Windows
– be powered on and not locked up
– have the included KVM software installed and running
– *not* have a DirectInput app take the focus and steal the keyboard.
This means most games will block the hotkey while they are the active app
If any of these are not true, you have to resort to using the buttons on the KVM, so put it in a convenient place.
Even with those warts, I’m probably not returning it. The price is right and it’s all set up for me. A decent KVM if you can live with those.
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