Black Box KV5300 Series manual Command Procedure

CHAPTER 4: Operation: Hardware and Keyboard Commands

4.3.7.E Command Procedure

On the input side of the ServSwitch, you might need to issue this command twice— once to set the keyboard type and once to set the mouse type. You can enter these global input-side commands at any time.

On the output side of the ServSwitch, selecting the Apple or Sun keyboard/mouse combo for the currently selected CPU port only requires a single command; selecting an IBM type keyboard mode and mouse interface for a CPU requires two commands—one for the keyboard mode and one for the mouse interface. (These output-side commands only affect one CPU port at a time; enter them only when that port is selected.) On the multiplatform ServSwitch, when you issue a command to change from an Apple or Sun keyboard to an IBM type keyboard, the Switch will automatically set the mouse interface to PS/2; until you make this keyboard change, any attempt to change from an Apple or Sun mouse to an IBM type mouse will be ignored.

To set the shared-keyboard type or shared-mouse type for the whole ServSwitch system, or the keyboard mode or mouse interface for the currently selected port, take these steps:

•Press and release the left Control key, then type [M];

•Referring to Table 4-5 on the next page, press the numeral key(s) corresponding to the code of the keyboard or mouse type you want; and

•Press [ENTER].

For example, to indicate a 101/102-key shared keyboard and Mouse Systems serial shared mouse, you would type [CTRL] [M] [2][0] [ENTER] followed by [CTRL] [M] [3][1] [ENTER]. Or, to choose Mode 2 keyboard with a Microsoft serial mouse for the current CPU port, you would type [CTRL] [M] [2] [ENTER] followed by [CTRL] [M] [7] [ENTER].

After you enter these commands, enter the Keep Settings command to save the mode setting in NVRAM, so that the new setting becomes the default value (preserved during power-down and reloaded at power-up).

Before you can set the keyboard mode or mouse interface of the currently selected port on a submaster unit, you have to isolate it from the rest of the system. (Note that this step might be unnecessary; the submaster should be able to automatically detect the keyboard mode when you turn ON CPUs that use mode 1 or 3, and mode 2—used by most PCs—is the default keyboard mode of the IBM and multiplatform ServSwitches.) First disconnect the submaster from the master, plug a keyboard into the submaster’s MONITOR/

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