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1 perry 1 KBDRATE
2 !!!KBDRATE
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 BUGS
8 FILES
9 ----
10 !!NAME
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13 kbdrate - reset the keyboard repeat rate and delay time
14 !!SYNOPSIS
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17 __kbdrate [[ -s ] [[ -r__ rate __] [[ -d__ delay
18 __]__
19 !!DESCRIPTION
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22 __kbdrate__ is used to change the keyboard repeat rate
23 and delay time. The delay is the amount of time that a key
24 must be depressed before it will start to
25 repeat.
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28 Using __kbdrate__ without any options will reset the
29 repeat rate to 10.9 characters per second (cps) and the
30 delay to 250 milliseconds (ms) for Intel- and M68K-based
31 systems. These are the IBM defaults. On SPARC-based systems
32 it will reset the repeat rate to 5 cps and the delay to 200
33 ms.
34 !!OPTIONS
35
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37 __-s__
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40 Silent. No messages are printed.
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43 __-r__ ''rate''
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46 Change the keyboard repeat rate to ''rate'' cps. For
47 Intel-based systems, the allowable range is from 2.0 to 30.0
48 cps. Only certain, specific values are possible, and the
49 program will select the nearest possible value to the one
50 specified. The possible values are given, in characters per
51 second, as follows: 2.0, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 3.0, 3.3, 3.7,
52 4.0, 4.3, 4.6, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.7, 7.5, 8.0, 8.6, 9.2, 10.0,
53 10.9, 12.0, 13.3, 15.0, 16.0, 17.1, 18.5, 20.0, 21.8, 24.0,
54 26.7, 30.0. For SPARC-based systems, the allowable range is
55 from 0 (no repeat) to 50 cps.
56
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58 __-d__ ''delay''
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61 Change the delay to ''delay'' milliseconds. For
62 Intel-based systems, the allowable range is from 250 to 1000
63 ms, in 250 ms steps. For SPARC systems, possible values are
64 between 10 ms and 1440 ms, in 10 ms steps.
3 NathanHubbard 65 !!EXAMPLE
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4 NathanHubbard 67 kbdrate -d 30 -d 250
1 perry 68 !!BUGS
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71 Not all keyboards support all rates.
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74 Not all keyboards have the rates mapped in the same
75 way.
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2 perry 78 Setting the repeat rate on the Gateway !AnyKey keyboard does
1 perry 79 not work. If someone with a Gateway figures out how to
80 program the keyboard, please send mail to
81 util-linux@math.uio.no.
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84 All this is very architecture dependent. Nowadays
85 __kbdrate__ first tries the KDKBDREP and KIOCSRATE
86 ioctls. (The former usually works on an m68k machine, the
87 latter for SPARC.) When these ioctls fail an ioport
88 interface as on i386 is assumed.
89 !!FILES
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92 ''/etc/rc.local
93 /dev/port''
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