Re: Sparc status/my two cents
Derrick J Brashear writes:
> > I've been meaning to have a look at it, I just haven't had the time yet.
> > The repeat delay does seem rather short (I counted about 0.2 s), and
> > as far as I can tell it's kernel related (though, as I said, I haven't
> > really had the time to look at it yet).
>
> I can tell you:
> -The code you care about is in drivers/sbus/char/sunkbd.c
> -The interesting values:
> static int kbd_delay_ticks = HZ / 5;
> static int kbd_rate_ticks = HZ / 20;
> -The interesting code bits are in sunkbd_inchar and and keyboard_timer in
> aforementioned file (and in the ioctl handler, which appears to correctly
> handle ioctls to change keyboard rates
>
> If someone with this problem has some time, try instrumenting the code with
> printks and see what you can find out.
Thanks for the info. I certainly would like to recompile the kernel
and change those settings. But I don't have a sparc to spare. The one
which has linux installed have to serve a an X terminal so I can
compile things in the background. But with the "keyboard broken", I
have to switch it back to solaris.
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