From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 23 16:54:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA04091 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 16:54:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA04083 for ; Wed, 23 Dec 1998 16:54:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA09791; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:24:25 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA14516; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:24:25 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981224112425.T12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:24:25 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SPEED of Text OS References: <3.0.5.32.19981223095007.0081f410@powernet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981223095007.0081f410@powernet.net>; from Bart (The Good Guy) Trzynadlowski on Wed, Dec 23, 1998 at 09:50:07AM -0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 23 December 1998 at 9:50:07 -0800, 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... I'm not sure what you mean by "Text OS", but I'm guessing you mean the syscons driver. > 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. It's at the speed at which you type, with the exception of the repeat. The repeat rate is determined by the keyboard. The operating system (or Microsoft) doesn't enter into it. To change the repeat rate and repeat holdoff, use kbdcontrol. By default, the holdoff (time before the keyboard starts repeating) is 500 ms, and the repeat rate 8 per second (126 ms). The fastest you can set is a holdoff of 250 ms and a repeat rate of 30 per second (34 ms per character). You can set this with # kbdcontrol -r 250.34 I personally use 250.42, about 24 repeats per second. Set these values in /etc/rc.conf: keyrate="250.42" # keyboard rate to: slow, normal, fast (or NO). Don't worry about the comment. I suppose we should change it. More details in kbdcontrol(8). Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message