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    SubjectRe: Suppressing softrepeat
    On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:15:57PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

    > I see the problem but I don't think we want another module parameter
    > for it. I think if you put the following somewhere into init scripts
    > it shoudl work without any additional changes:
    >
    > echo -n "0" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serioX/softrepeat

    This should work, indeed, as an alternative to 'kbdrate -d 750'.

    > Of couurse one would jhave to locate proper serioX but that should be easy.
    >
    > I also see the following in bugzilla: "... This causs a problem on
    > systems that have no real keyboard plugged in, since atkbd probes for
    > the keyboard, and won't take control of the port if it doesn't see
    > one." Usually it is OK for keyboard to be missing as long as BIOS
    > itself does not disable keyboard port - whenever there is new data
    > starts coming from the port serio core will try to find proper driver
    > for it. I wonder why this is not working on boxes in question.

    The DRAC3 doesn't respond to ANY commands, thus the atkbd probe fails.

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