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From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: kern/3839: X startup undoes keyboard repeat rate 
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The following reply was made to PR kern/3839; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To: admin@citylink.dinoex.sub.org
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: kern/3839: X startup undoes keyboard repeat rate 
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 09:06:36 +0900

 >>Number:         3839
 >>Category:       kern
 >>Synopsis:       X startup undoes keyboard repeat rate (pcvt)
 >>Confidential:   no
 >>Severity:       non-critical
 >>Priority:       low
 >>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 >>State:          open
 >>Class:          change-request
 >>Submitter-Id:   current-users
 >>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 10 17:10:07 PDT 1997
 >>Last-Modified:
 >>Originator:     Peter Much
 >>Organization:
 >Beyond the Future Shockwave: Convenience or Conviviality?
 >>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386
 >>Environment:
 >
 >XFree86 compiled and installed as contained in
 >ports-package for 2.2.1 (just like everything else)
 >
 >>Description:
 >
 >Keyboard-repeat-rate (pcvt) is quite slow here. So I'm setting it
 >faster with kcon from /etc/rc.local.
 >When the X-Server starts up, repeat-rate is reset to original value -
 >efficient both within X and on the virtual tty's.
 >
 >This wasn't the case with FreeBSD-2.1.0 - there the keyrepeat-rate within
 >X did follow the kcon setting and wasn't reset. 
 >(People told me the keyrepeat-rate for X should be separately configured
 >via XF86Config. This does not work, anyway.)
 
 The pcvt in 3.0-CURRENT uses different set of I/O routines to access
 the keyboard. Get files in /sys/i386/isa/pcvt in the 3.0-CURRENT tree
 and see if they work for you. (You are advised to backup the original
 pcvt source and the kernel before doing this, of course)
 
 Kazu