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CHAPTER 3: Installation
• 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
The Multi-Head ServSwitch should be placed on a desktop or shelf near your
monitors and peripherals. You can use the optional Remote-Control Module if you
want to put a Switch farther from your monitors and peripherals.
3.3 Connecting Your Equipment
NOTES
When you connect devices to Switches’ “control ports” and “CPU
ports,” refer to Figure 2-2 in Section 2.3 to see where these ports are.
Any unused CPU-port or control-port connectors on a Multi-Head
ServSwitch can be left vacant.
Feel free to mix computers with multiple video outputs and computers
with single outputs in your Switch system. When you switch to a CPU
with a single output, that output will be displayed on the first monitor
and the additional monitors will be blank.
Most Multi-Head ServSwitch applications will involve a keyboard, a mouse, a set of
two to four monitors, and two to four computer CPUs attached to a single Wizard.
If that describes what you want to do, follow the procedure in Section 3.3.1.
If your CPUs have more than four video outputs (up to as many as eight), you
will need two synchronized Switches to switch between the CPUs. Follow the
procedure in Section 3.3.2.
You might want to use Premium KVM User or CPU Cables to attach your devices,
and you might need adapters for PC/AT style equipment. These cables and
adapters are described in Section 3.3.3.
NOTE
It is theoretically possible to cascade Multi-Head ServSwitches in order
to switch between more than four CPUs. It is also theoretically possible
to synchronize more than two Multi-Head ServSwitches in order to
handle CPUs whose video cards have more than eight video heads. But
in each case, cabling would be very complex. If you feel that you need to
install such a system, please call Black Box Technical Support.