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SERVSWITCH™ DUO AND SERVSWITCH™ QUADRO
• A suitable mouse driver for your PCs. Supported types are:
– PS/2 or RS-232 two-button mouse driver by any manufacturer.
– Microsoft mouse drivers, including those for the IntelliMouse. (You might
be able to user other drivers with IntelliMouse compatible data formats, but
these might not work—trial-and-error testing might be necessary.)
– Logitech mouse drivers, including those for two-button, three-button, and
wheel mice.
3.2 Placement
If you want to put the ServSwitch Duo/Quadro on a flat surface such as a desktop
or shelf, peel off the backing on its adhesive feet and stick them on the bottom of
the Duo/Quadro. If you want to mount the Duo/Quadro in a 19" rack, use the
included brackets and screws and follow the procedure described in
Appendix B .
3.3 Maintaining Video Quality
Before you start attaching cables to the ServSwitch Duo/Quadro, consider what
effect your cabling will have on your Duo/Quadro system’s video quality. The
Duo/Quadro supports very-high-bandwidth video signals and resolutions up to
1600 x 1280 pixels. It regenerates the video signals using wideband amplifiers in
order to minimize any loss of video quality. However, all video cables introduce
distortion onto the video signal. For short cables this distortion is minimal, but for
longer cables the loss of quality can start to become noticeable, particularly at
higher video resolutions. To get the best video quality for your Duo/Quadro
installation, we recommend that you follow these guidelines:
• Use the shortest possible video cables between your devices. High-quality cables,
such as our Premium KVM CPU Cables (EHN408), will give excellent results.
• Avoid using cables with HD15 connectors that are not specifically designed to
carry video signals; you will see a picture, but it will probably have smudging,
ghosting, and loss of focus. Cables that are designed to carry video signals are
constructed using three separate coaxial cores to carry the red, green, and
blue signals. These coaxial cores make the cable thick like the cable that you
see coming out of the back of a monitor. Typically this cable will be about
3 ⁄
8
"
(8.5 to 9 mm) in diameter. If your cable is thin—say 1 ⁄
4
" (6 mm) or less in
diameter—or doesn’t look like the cable you’d expect to see coming out of a
monitor, then it’s probably a data cable rather than a video cable. Such cables
are only suitable for very-low-resolution graphics and monochrome text.