Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 17:17:39 +0200
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Sau Dan Lee <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.7-bk way too fast
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On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 03:20:59PM +0200, Sau Dan Lee wrote:

>     Vojtech> It's possible that X does it's own autorepeat, though
>     Vojtech> that'd rather surprise me.
> 
> Why?  XFree86 has been doing its own autorepeat, I think.
> 
>         $ xset q
>         Keyboard Control:
>           auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
>           auto repeat delay:  660    repeat rate:  25
>           auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
>                                 fa9fffffffdfe5ff
>                                 ffffffffffffffff
>                                 ffffffffffffffff
>           bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
> 
> And I  can change it via "xset  r rate [delay [rate  ]]", according to
> "xset help".  Indeed,  you can use 'xset' to  change the rate/delay to
> very  extreme values,  which  exceed the  hardware  allowed on  AT/PS2
> keyboards (e.g. rates > 30  cps), adjusted with the 'kbdrate' command.
> So, the only  possibility for these hardware limits  to be transcended
> is s/w based autorepeat.
 
Indeed, X does its own autorepeat.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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