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Bug 27778

Summary: Low keyboard repeat rate when press-and-hold keyboard keys
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Alexey Starinsky <alxstr>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) <taviso>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: trivial    
Priority: High    
Version: 1.4_rc4   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Description Alexey Starinsky 2003-09-02 09:28:05 UTC
I just tried to move cursor at console mc (on tty), it runs very s_l_o_w_l_y 
compared to another linux distro. (When I press it frequently, it runs much 
more fast)
My kernel is vanilla-sources 2.4.21. 
May be, there is a workaround of this probleb and that is not bug, but I could 
not find any docs about "how-to-change a keyboard repeat rate".

BIOS settings are OK. 
(I have no problems neither in Win2K nor MDK9.1)


Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Tavis Ormandy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-09-06 06:17:42 UTC
You can set the keyboard repeat rate in X with the xset command, eg 

xset r rate <delay> <rate>

you can set it in the console with kbdrate, eg

kbdrate -r <rate> -d <delay>

not a bug, so setting as INVALID.