actually the delay before kicking in. my laptop has it in the bios, strange yours doesn't only bios I have seen that is completely user unfriendly is ibm's, an old toshiba bios had the option to delay the typomatic kickin in it.
Rick Romero wrote: >I assume you mean the 'Typmatic Rate Programming' or something like >that. > >Unfortunately, the laptop doesn't have that setting, or anything close >to that. > >I'll keep that in mind for the desktop (Home PC) though. > >On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 12:10, J. Greenlees wrote: > >>have you tried setting the rate in the bios higher? >>it solved this problem for me. >> >>Rick Romero wrote: >> >>>I have a strange problem that I've actually run into on my home PC as >>>well. >>> >>>I've installed Mandrake 9.0 RC2 on a new Toshiba 1405S171 laptop. >>>Everything went PERFECTLY. Audio/Video/Networking. It all works just >>>fine. >>> >>>Here's the issue. When I type at 'normal speed', the input is doubled. >>>So if I type 'rick' I actually get 'rriicckk'. >>> >>>I've had this issue occur on my home PC (home built) with Mandrake 8.1, >>>but I assumed it was my not-so-good (ok cheap) motherboard.. >>> >>>Has anyone heard of an issue like this? I'm not sure where else to ask, >>>most queries I've tried end up linking to c code.. (type double bleh ;) >>> >>> >>>Thanks >>> >>>Rick >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > >
