Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Mar 1998 21:45:25 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: keyboard repeat rate, increase ceiling? |
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Hi!
> > I am wondering if the cieling to the keyboard repeat rate value is > > hardware or kernel imposed; using `kbdrate' at its highest setting, > > which is apparently based on the kernel, yields an unsatisfactory rate. > > Is there some way that I might be able to artificially increase this > > rate? > > It's hardware. Each key normally sends the kernel a <MAKE> code when > pressed and a <BREAK> code when released. When the keyboard repeats, > it sends <MAKE> codes without intervening <BREAK>s. You *could* get > around it by rewriting the keyboard driver to do repeats in software, > but please be aware that it is not a trivial thing to do.
And - it might be good thing (tm) to do that. I would like to see that feature...
Pavel
PS: I believe that on sparc's we already do autorepeat in SW. -- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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