This is a pretty odd problem, but I've had it on two different gentoo systems now so I think it's a bug. Basically, what you do is this. In your x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r3 server running on 2.6.9-gentoo-r1, pull up a terminal and set your keyboard rate to 250ms/30cps with the kbdrate command. Then, use xset to set the keyboard rate to something less than 250ms delay and more than 30cps repeat. For this example, I used 180ms/90cps just to demonstrate the problem. so: kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 then: xset r rate 180 90 What happens when you press a key is this: - delay for 180ms - repeat at 90 cps for 70ms - then repeat at 30 cps from then on Interestingly, "xset r rate 1 255", in addition to the expected behavior of making your keyboard useless, doesn't seem to exhibit this behavior. The relevant part of my X config: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "CoreKeyboard" "true" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection This can be worked around by simply using the same settings for xset that you use with kbdrate, but then you are limited to 250ms/30cps, which is too slow by my measure at least. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. kbdrate -r 30 -d 250 2. xset r rate 180 90 3. press & hold a key Actual Results: - delay for 180ms - repeat at 90 cps for 70ms - then repeat at 30 cps from then on Expected Results: - delay for 180ms - repeat at 90 cps
I've just added a patch to the kbd driver in 6.8.0-r4 to change how it deals with repeats (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651). Please try it. grep ^PATCH_VER /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4.ebuild, and make sure it shows 0.2.10 or greater.
Ok, thanks. It will be a couple days before I can test this. I'll let you know how it goes.
Looks like 6.8.0-r4 is masked by package.mask, that looks scary!
This breaks key repeating entirely for me. I can hold keys down, but they won't start repeating. Key repeat was working perfectly in -r1 through -r3.
Try adding the extra patch mentioned in comment #8 of https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651.
I applied the #8 one and now my keys are repeating just fine. If you want me to try out the #9 one as well, let me know.
9 is just 8 combined with the previous stuff. Anyhow, I've added this patch to our 6.8.0-r4.
I think this is fixed as of yesterday afternoon. Please reopen if that isn't the case.
