On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Ben Reser wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 06:01:02PM -0600, John C Lamoreaux wrote:
> > How do I change the keyboard auto repeat rate? Not surprisingly, the X conf 
> > file has no effect. When I try kbdrate, however, it bring the system down, 
> > hard. No error messages; just a crash.
> > 
> > This is my first try at linux on a mac. Is there something simple I'm 
> > missing?
> 
> You should be able to adjust it in X according to this documentation
> (this is for Mklinux but I would imagine it would be similar).
> http://lppcfom.sourceforge.net/fom-serve/cache/348.html
> 
> kbdrate doesn't work on any other architecture than x86 really since
> it relys on /dev/port which is x86 arch dependent.  Supposedly kbdrate
> has been fixed to work on sparc but it's not fixed to work on ppc.
> 
> As a result line 243 in util-linux.spec should be changed from:
> %ifnarch s390 s390x
> to
> %ifnarch s390 s390x ppc
> 
> to prevent kbdrate from being built on ppc.
> 

Will do - thanks Ben.

Stew Benedict

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