After a recent upgrade my default keyboard repeat in X11 became painfully slow. xset q reports auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED mask: 00000000 auto repeat delay: 660 repeat rate: 25 auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf fadfffdfffdfe5ef ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff If I "xset r rate 660 24" or "xset r rate 660 26" the keyboard repeat speeds up to something I am more used to. If I then "xset r rate 660 25" then the keyboard repeat slows down to its 1Hz crawl (rather than the 25Hz the second parameter is supposed to mean). I am inclined to blame this change on my recent upgrade from kernel 2.4.28 to kernel 2.6.11 based on the timing. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. hold down the spacebar Actual Results: keyboard autorepeats at about 1Hz Expected Results: keyboard should be autorepeating at 25Hz Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130-vanilla, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/thoth/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X Xaw3d acl alsa apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdr crypt cups curl divx4linux doc dv dvd dvdr dvdread edl emboss encode esd fam ffmpeg foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mjpegi mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql mythtv ncurses nls nojython ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd theora tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode v4l vim-with-x vorbis win32codecs wmf xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv xvid yv12 zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
We'll see what kernel people have to say about that.
Is the keyboard repeat speed outside of X (at a real console) just as slow?
Yes, in a text console (actually, I use a graphical splash mode) the keyboard repeat is painfully slow. I haven't researched a tool to control this, but I'm sure if I did more console work I would be forced to hunt one down. On the off chance it is relevant, these are my lilo arguments to the kernel: video=vesafb:1280x1024-16@60 splash=silent,theme:Emergance quiet CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
Is this a USB or PS/2 keyboard? Do you have any keyboards of the other type which you can test?
Sometimes the keyboard repeat rate is configurable in the bios. Have you tried playing with any available settings there?
This is the keyboard built-in to a ZV-5000 laptop. $ dmesg | grep -i key input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 The BIOS on this laptop has almost NO options. There is no setting for keyboard autorepeat.
Ok. Are you able to test with any external keyboards (e.g. PS2 or USB)?
I attempted to attach a USB keyboard. I did this after the laptop was booted. The external keyboard appeared to be non-functional in both the console and X11. I couldn't even get the lights to come on with numlock and capslock. The xorg.conf man page was useless. I tried some things from web pages discovered with google, but none of them made the keyboard work in X11.
Please plug the keyboard in, and then attach the output of "dmesg". Also, please attach your kernel .config and the output of "lspci -v".
I recompiled my kernel with CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT once I discovered it was missing. I currently have a USB keyboard attached. Holding down a key on the laptop's built-in keyboard autorepeats slowly. Holding down a key on the USB keyboard autorepeats quickly. This is the same in X and console.
OK, thanks for testing that! Looks like we are going to have to file an upstream bug report. Please reproduce this on vanilla-sources-2.6.13_rc6 (soon to be released). If the problem still exists there, please save the output of "dmesg". Also, emerge dmidecode and capture the output of "dmidecode" too. Please attach those two outputs here. If it's not obvious to me, I'll point you on to filing an upstream bug. Thanks.
Please reopen when you respond to comment #11
I did a quickie reboot into 2.6.13-rc6 (vanilla) and the slow keyrepeat was still a problem. I still need to capture a dmesg and dmidecode output.
