[plug] Emulate Keyboard, Video, Mouse over USB (on Linux)

[Matthew Lambie]

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 07:37 +0800, Quintin Lette wrote:
> > 
> > These things don't generally work on laptops (well atleast if you
> > intend to use the laptop to control the pc), and definately won't give
> > VNC style interaction (ie a window inside linux session).
> > 
> > There are however software solutions I read about a long time ago, and
> > I'm not currently near the magazines that the article was in (all
> > though I will be in an couple of hours or so) so I'm a bit rusty on
> > the details. Basically its a software kvm (so you'd need to install
> > the service on the device) and supported linux and doze IIRC. Ofcourse
> > this won't help until the OS (and service) is loaded.
> > 
> sorry I couldn't find the article, if you're interested try googling
> "software kvm" there were a lot of responses.
> Maybe try http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/

A software KVM is as useful as running X or Terminal Services on the
machine. My (imaginary at this point) device doesn't require system
software so you can use it to access the BIOS/install an OS etc.

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