On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 09:20:20AM -0700, Patrick Draper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't set my keyboard rate. I've read every web page out there on
> setting keyboard rates, and I still haven't figured it out yet.
man kbdrate -- though it appears you're onto this.
> They kbdrate program gives me the standard message that it changed the
> rate, but it doesn't actually change anything. The same goes for the
> xset program.
How about telling us:
- What user you're running as.
- The text of the command you're running.
- The text of the output.
Hint -- you need to run as root.
> This problem only happens with Debian. When I run Suse, RedHat, or
> FreeBSD I can change the keyboard rate at will.
On the same hardware?
> I want the key repeat to be 30 characters a second. Debian 2.1 and 2.2
> seem to both set it to 10 CPS at bootup and won't let me change it.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
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