Keyboard repeat problem
Bruce Cran
bruce at cran.org.uk
Mon Mar 10 12:55:14 PDT 2008
Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> On 09/03/2008, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
>> I'm seeing a problem with the keyboard repeat in Xorg 7.3 on FreeBSD
>> 7.0/amd64 on a Dell laptop. When I press and hold a key at most about
>> 20 characters are displayed before stopping; usually
>> the repeat doesn't happen and only a single character is
>> displayed. This happens no matter what window
>> manager I use, and I've tried both the built-in keyboard and an external
>> USB Dell keyboard. The configuration section of xorg.conf contains:
>
> I share your pain. It also happens to me on a Latitude D630 running
> both linux distros I've used with it: Fedora 7 and 8. I guess it's an
> hardware problem though I'd have to see how Windows behaves but I
> don't have it installed anymore ;-)
>
> Anyway, I don't find it much of a problem though, as it happens very seldomly.
>
> Rui
>
On this laptop it happens all the time when I'm running Xorg. I can
switch to the console and the keyboard works fine; switch back to Xorg
and the keyboard repeat stops working. I don't see the problem in
Windows XP either.
--
Bruce
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