Slow keyboard

jonas_nilsson · Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2003 10:27 am Post subject: Slow keyboard

Hello there, I have a problem:

The keyboard on my Compaq 907EA Laptop is really slow. The response is good, absolutely no problem with normal typing. It's just that when I press and hold a button, the time between every letter appearing on the screen is deadly long. It's like the computer reads the keyboard buffer way to seldom.

Any ideas?
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meowsqueak · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:42 am Post subject:

This is usually called 'typematic repeat' and can be configured in your BIOS (reduce the delay). I suspect that Linux can override it somehow too, but I wouldn't know how to do that. Perhaps the Console HOWTO might help?

jonas_nilsson · Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2003 6:07 am Post subject:

Aaaah thanks a lot.
Actually it was as simple. For others interrested; just use 'kbdrate' !
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Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
--Richard Feynman