Re:Fixing a dead keyboard-repeat

[Adam Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 From          : klug>klug-request
 To            : adam
 Subject       : Fixing a dead keyboard-repeat
 Date          : 01/01/70 01:01


>I've no idea why this happens, but occasionally it does.  I came back
>to work after the holidays to find that the keyboard repeat rate on my
>Red Hat 6.0 system has dropped to something rather slow.  In my
>opinion, holding down a key should make it repeat at roughly 0.5c,
>so to me this is very annoying.

Does you machine have a "sleep" mode?~

Try "man kbdrate",  it is used to set the repeat parameters of the keyboard
driver.  If that doesn't fix it it is probably something flaky with the PS/2
controller chip,  is this a Compaq machine?

>Restarting X doesn't cure it.  Un/replugging the keyboard doesn't cure

You might try setting it with the xset command,  but if restarting X~
doesn't help, then that is unlikely to work.

>it.  (PS/2 keyboard, if it matters.)  And I'd rather not reboot my
>machine because it has an uptime of 112 days and by now it's the
>principle of the thing.~

I know the feeling.

>Anyone know how I can restore my repeat rate to its former glory?

I've had this happen to older machines when they come out of APM sleep,  in
the future try disableing APM, just to see if the problem goes away.  That
is, if you have APM in the first place.