From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 11:06:18 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3911065676 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:06:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alt127@SDF.lonestar.org) Received: from mx-out.forthnet.gr (mx-out.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.104]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB6A68FC24 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:06:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alt127@SDF.lonestar.org) Received: from mx-av-05.forthnet.gr (mx-av.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.27]) by mx-out-04.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m5IAVaaI006121; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:31:36 +0300 Received: from MX-IN-04.forthnet.gr (mx-in-04.forthnet.gr [193.92.150.163]) by mx-av-05.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m5IAVabm026799; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:31:36 +0300 Received: from pc7388.sa.forthnet.prv (pc7388.sa.forthnet.prv [10.2.31.18]) by MX-IN-04.forthnet.gr (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m5IAVU4v021037; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:31:34 +0300 Message-ID: <4858E3F2.5040206@SDF.lonestar.org> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:31:14 +0300 From: alt127 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080508) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris References: <434686.561.qm@web58309.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <434686.561.qm@web58309.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keyboard repetition under X11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:06:18 -0000 hi, maybe you should give kbdcontrol a try you could also pass the values in /etc/rc.conf as keyrate=delay.repeat Chris wrote: > Hi all, > > this is probably a silly question, but I can't find > what I'm doing wrong, so I need help. > I just re-installed my FreeBSD box from 6.0 to 7.0 and > suddenly I can't get my keyboard to repeat when > keeping a key pressed, which has always worked > immediately on all my previous installs. > > This is what I have in my xorg.conf (added last line > just to try to force repeat) > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Keyboard0" > Driver "kbd" > Option "CoreKeyBoard" > Option "XkbRules" "xorg" > Option "XkbModel" "pc105" > Option "XkbLayout" "se" > Option "AutoRepeat" "400 30" > EndSection > > "xset q" tells me the following: > Keyboard Control: > auto repeat: on key click percent: 0 LED > mask: 00000000 > auto repeat delay: 660 repeat rate: 25 > auto repeating keys: 00ffffffdffffbbf > fadfffdfffdfe5ef > ffffffffffffffff > ffffffffffffffff > bell percent: 50 bell pitch: 400 bell > duration: 100 > > So, as far as I understand, I should have repetition > enabled, but the keyboard isn't responding as > expected. It's not a hardware problem as it still > works on an older FreeBSD machine. The keyboard in > question is a cheap USB keyboard identified as follows > in dmesg in case that is any help: > ukbd0: 1.10/1.00, addr 4> on uhub5 > > Any help appreciated, as I suspect I've done some > really basic stupidity, but I can't see it. > > BR, > Chris > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >