Re: Keyboard rate question..

From: Jon Evans (jon.evans@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Apr 01 2000 - 08:58:52 EST


On Sat, 1 Apr 2000, Evan Langlois wrote:

> Hmm .. I misssed whatever started this, but I've noticed that under
> recent kernels, my key repeat is pathetically slow, basically the default
> for the keyboard. I would think it should be set by some config utility
> like Gnome or something, but it doesn't seem to. I have to hit Fn-F6
> (which is my keyboards way of setting a faster key repeat). Kinda
> annoying - whatever changed .. it was better before :P

Did you by any chance recently install XFree 4.0? The keyboard rate code
changed and I found my repeat rate had also dropped to the lowest. Make
sure you've got the line:

    Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30"

in the InputDevice/Driver "keyboard" section of your XF86Config.

Jon.

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