Bug 1832

Summary: Keyboard repeat rate slows down
Product: xorg Reporter: Wolfgang Dobler <wdobler>
Component: Input/KeyboardAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high    
Version: 6.8.0   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description Wolfgang Dobler 2004-11-11 11:24:02 UTC 
When pressing a key (in xterm, emacs, galeon,...) the keyboard repeat rate is
first high, but after about 20-30 characters (less than 1 second) it slows down.
According to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134110 , this
is connected to the `kbd' driver and was not a problem with the old 'keyboard'
driver, but in my version of xorg, keyboard_drv.o is a copy of kbd_drv.o, so I
cannot verify this.

Here's my settings from xset:

  Keyboard Control:
    auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
    auto repeat delay:  200    repeat rate:  66
    auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                          fadfffdfffdfe5ef
                          ffffffffffffffff
                          ffffffffffffffff

and from /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

  Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Keyboard0"
        Driver      "kbd"
  EndSection

OS: Gentoo x86_64, kernel 2.6.7-gentoo-r11
Comment 1 Colin Murtaugh 2004-12-01 05:33:37 UTC 
I'm seeing this too, on Fedora 3 with xorg-x11 6.8.1
Comment 2 Matthieu Herrb 2004-12-20 14:36:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1651 ***

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