Michael Shuey writes: > I've been reading this list for a while now, so maybe I can answer a few > questions about Debian/sparc's status. I may be wrong about the status of > a few things, but if I am the main developers will probably hurry to correct > me, so here goes.
I would like to add the problem of keyboard repeat. No one seems to care but it is very important to me. I have to enter my password many times just to login because I can't make my keyborad not repeating my password. May be I have a special type of typing with my finger staying on the key longer than ordinary folk. Anyway, the kernel (or whatever) seems unable to control the keyboard repeat. kbdrate dosn't works: it reports a new delay and rate, but they aren't changed. I have set the delay to a maximum value of 1000 ms, but still have apparently the same repeat delay (it is inconceivable that my finger stay on the key more than 1 sec). Using X with option -r -ar1 -ar2 (which supposely would change the delay and repeat rate) dosn't seem to change anything. I have launched "xset r off" to turn off the keyboard repeating but it still repeats. Obviously the Xserver is unable to control this behaviour. (For curiosity, I have tried this command on every unix stations and linux PC which I have acces: it works as advertized). By the way, I have tried the redhat sparc distribution and still get the same problem. I suspect I should tell them but I don't know how. I am not their client. I would prefer debian (unless of course, the redhat people have a solution to this problem). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- PHAM Dinh Tuan | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laboratoire de Modelisation et Calcul | Tel: +33 4 76 51 44 23 BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex (France) | Fax: +33 4 76 63 12 63 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
