From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 15:59:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA26066 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:59:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bcgrizzly.com (bcgrizzly.com [207.34.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA26052 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:59:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from forger@bcgrizzly.com) Received: (qmail 1535 invoked from network); 23 Dec 1998 23:59:58 -0000 Received: from bcgrizzly.com (207.34.136.10) by bcgrizzly.com with SMTP; 23 Dec 1998 23:59:58 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 15:59:58 -0800 (PST) From: Brook Miles To: "Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPEED of Text OS In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981223095007.0081f410@powernet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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