Hi Meik, > > On Solaris 10 x86 using Xsun with SRSS, how do I adjust the keyboard > > repeat rate and the intial delay? I'd like 250ms initial delay and 40 > > chars/sec or so. I've only been able to find references to accessx > > which can slow the keyboard down even further, kbd which can adjust > > the console keyboard and the -ar1 and -ar2 Xsun server options which > > would then be server-global if I hacked them into the global X server > > setup. > > > > Is the only option to enable XKB? If I do that, are there any > > downsides? > > I think it is the only option, besides the -ar hack. One downside is in > the SRSS for Solaris release notes: it doesn't work well with the CDE > desktop environment (i.e., I have no autorepeat at all under CDE).
our setup (ubuntu 704/SRSS 3.1.1) works fine with xkb enabled ... and I use xset for the rate .. > > > > > > Now, to the story: > > > > I've run SRSS on 32-bit Kubuntu for a long time. Moving to bigger > > iron, I really wanted a 64-bit kernel. Since I don't want to mess > > with home-rolled kernels (been there done that) and since no Linux > > distro seems to have realized that a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit > > userspace is very very useable, I needed to install 64-bit userspace. > > After spending *much* too much time on that, I ended up giving up > > when I realized the 32-bit PAM modules from SRSS wouldn't work with > > the 64-bit PAM in the distro. > > 64 bit kernel/32 bit userspace: the Debian guys have realized for some > months that this is useful and support it. Before this, I downloaded > the 64 bit kernel .deb file "by hand" and installed it via > "dpkg --force-architecture". I think this should work in Ubuntu, too. > You will need some small hacks to compile the SRSS modules. look for lib32* and ia32* packages in ubuntu cheers tobi -- Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten http://it.oetiker.ch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++41 62 213 9902 _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
