Keyboard repetition under X11

[alt127]

hi,

maybe you should give kbdcontrol a try

you could also pass the values in /etc/rc.conf as

keyrate=delay.repeat 

Chris wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> this is probably a silly question, but I can't find
> what I'm doing wrong, so I need help.
> I just re-installed my FreeBSD box from 6.0 to 7.0 and
> suddenly I can't get my keyboard to repeat when
> keeping a key pressed, which has always worked
> immediately on all my previous installs.
>
> This is what I have in my xorg.conf (added last line
> just to try to force repeat)
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier  "Keyboard0"
>         Driver      "kbd"
>         Option      "CoreKeyBoard"
>         Option      "XkbRules" "xorg"
>         Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
>         Option      "XkbLayout" "se"
>         Option      "AutoRepeat" "400 30"
> EndSection
>
> "xset q" tells me the following:
>   Keyboard Control:
>     auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED
> mask:  00000000
>     auto repeat delay:  660    repeat rate:  25
>     auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
>                           fadfffdfffdfe5ef
>                           ffffffffffffffff
>                           ffffffffffffffff
>     bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell
> duration:  100
>
> So, as far as I understand, I should have repetition
> enabled, but the keyboard isn't responding as
> expected. It's not a hardware problem as it still
> works on an older FreeBSD machine. The keyboard in
> question is a cheap USB keyboard identified as follows
> in dmesg in case that is any help:
> ukbd0: <Ezkey Ezkey USB Keyboard, class 0/0, rev
> 1.10/1.00, addr 4> on uhub5
>
> Any help appreciated, as I suspect I've done some
> really basic stupidity, but I can't see it.
>
> BR,
>   Chris
>
>
>
>
>       
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