Configuration
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Selecting the USB keyboard mode
The KVM switch supports the USB keyboards listet on this page.
You can use the special features of some USB keyboards with specific USB key-
In addition to the keys of the standard keyboard layout, the preset
PC Multimedia
USB keyboard mode supports multimedia keys like
Loud
and
Quiet
.
When applying
Apple Keyboards
or
Sun Keyboards
you can use special keyboard modes
to use the special keys of these keyboards.
The following table lists the supported USB keyboards:
How to select the USB keyboard mode for a computer:
1. Press
Ctrl+Num
(standard) to open the On-Screen Display.
2. Press
F1
to open the
Function
menu.
3. Use the
Arrow keys
to select
System Config
and press
Enter
.
4. Use the
Arrow keys
to select
USB Keyboard Mode
and press
Enter
.
5. Select the channel and press
Space
to select on of the options listed above.
6. Repeat step 5 to change the keyboard mode of another channel.
7. Leave the menu by pressing
Enter
.
8. Press
F1
to save your settings.
IMPORTANT:
The settings of the USB keyboard mode of a slave device cannot be
changed in the OSD of the master device.
If you configure one of the master switch’s CPU interfaces to connect a slave
switch (see page 44), for this CPU interface the info
Slave Mode
is displayed in the
master switch’s
USB Keyboard Mode
menu.
You can use the slave switch connected to this CPU interface temporarily as mas-
ter switch to change the settings as described below.
INPUT DEVICE
SETTING
PC keyboard with additional multimedia keys
PC Multimedia
Sun keyboard (German keyboard layout)
SUN German
Sun keyboard (American keyboard layout)
SUN US
Apple keyboard with numeric keypad (A1243)
Apple A1243
PC keyboard with standard keyboard layout
PC Standard
IMPORTANT:
After changing the keyboard layout of the
Sun Keyboard
, the Sun com-
puter requires a reboot.
