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 -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
