Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:59:58 -0800 (PST) From: Brook Miles <forger@bcgrizzly.com> To: "Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski" <trzy@powernet.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPEED of Text OS Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812231553440.1394-100000@kodiak.bcgrizzly.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981223095007.0081f410@powernet.net>
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Look at kbdcontrol for the console and xset for X to adjust the keyboard repeat rate. Also check out the keyrate setting in rc.conf --- Brook Miles <forger@bcgrizzly.com> On Wed, 23 Dec 1998, Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski wrote: > Hello, > I've tried both Linux (Redhat 5.1) and PicoBSD but there has always been > something that really nags me about the text OS and typing in general (even > sometimes in X)... Why does the typing rate seem sluggish in the text os? > The repeat rate for the keyboard is slow and overall typing is a tad bit > muckier than in say... DOS... > If any of you have access to DOS try it out and then take a look at > FreeBSD's or Linux's speed... I dont know wether it is me or my hardware... > But it seems a bit slower. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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