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>  Do you mean that you have your system set to load X immediately upon
> booting, and that you do not set the keyboard repeat rate before then?

No, I boot into terminal mode and then log in and then issue startx.
What happens for me currently is that I start up x and they key repeat
rate is too slow. Even if I issue kbdcontrol -r fast before starting x.

> If so, put the following in /etc/rc.conf:
> keyrate="fast"

Okay. I'll try that.