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SubjectRe: Stuck shift key on one virtual console (2.0.36)
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Alex Buell (Home) wrote:

> On 17 Mar 1999, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>
> > dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW) writes:
> >
> > |> But reboot -- what a bad habit, when you have source..
> > |> Next time, try, e.g., "kbd_mode -a".
> >
> > Pretty hard to type if shift is stuck...
>
> I recently swapped keyboards on the fly when my machine was "live". I
> didn't want to reboot it for that uptime. However, the keyboard didn't
> reset itself to the required keyrate so I ended up having to bash the keys
> for the required number of characters rather than just hold it down and
> get auto-repeat. Is there an utility that tweaks the keyobard's attributes
> for you? (I did reboot in the end - for 2.2.3 =)

kbdrate -r <cps>

Simon-

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