Re: pre2.0.31-2: keyboard repeat rate

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones (bpaj@gytha.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 7 Jun 1997 15:34:07 +0100 (BST)

On 7 Jun 1997, Hein Roehrig wrote:

>
> in pre-patch-2.0.31-2 I read:
>
> +! LMA 4/15/97 removed setting of keyboard repeat rate. Causes some systems
> +! to hang at boot.
>
> What is the right way to set the keyboard repeat rate? For X, xset r
> is a no-op in Xfree 3.2, and at quick glance, I can't find any hooks
> in the kernel for changing it... Finally, my BIOS does not allow me to
> define pre-set. Any hint?
>

See kbdrate(8). It dosn't work for all keyboards tho, see the bugs
section of the man page.

> TIA,
> Hein
>
>

Bryn

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