keyboard autorepeat

[Ian Zimmerman <itz@amazon.lbin.com>]

Is there a clean way to once and for always set the keyboard
autorepeat delay and rate on a Debian system?  I mean something like 

kbdrate -d 500 -r 10.0

somewhere in the /etc/init.d/* scripts.  grep says no there is no
such thing -- do I have to add it myself, and if so, what's the best
place? 

As a start, I tried to use the Gnome control panel to set it in X
(although eventually I want it in text mode too).  But changing the
keyboard settings there seems to have no effect at all ...

-- 
Ian Zimmerman
Lightbinders, Inc.
2325 3rd Street #324, San Francisco, California 94107