Re: Keyboard character repeat problem

Unforutunately the latest portege's and satellites from toshiba have
badly broken keyboards under X. I use a combination of the following two
things to get my onboard keyboard working happily...

 
#
# /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/X0-config.keyboard
#
# This should help with the Toshiba internal keyboard
# reppeattt problem in XFree86.
#
# 31.01.2002 Teemu Rinta-aho <[email protected]>
#
Rules                    =      "xfree86"
RepeatDelay              =      500
RepeatInterval           =      50
DebounceDelay            =      10
AccessXTimeout           =      0
Controls                +=      BounceKeys


And I also load a simple shell script in my .xsession / .xinitrc which
contains the following...

 cat bin/xkbset.sh 

#!/bin/sh
while true
do
/usr/X11R6/bin/xkbset bo 40
sleep 60
done

This should help you out a bit. There is talk of a proper patch for X
appearing in X4.3 which would be great but for now this makes things
livable as otherwise the toshiba portege and satellite's are brilliant
machines.

Cheers,

Mark

On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 01:50, Scott Augustus wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm currently having some strange keyboard trouble on my Toshiba Sat Pro 6000.  
> When I use my USB keyboard everything is just dandy.  However, when I use the 
> built-in keyboard in X I get very strange keyboard activity.  Normal typing 
> produces repeated characters. 
> 
> For example if I type a quick 'ls' at the prompt, I most often get either lls 
> or lss as a result.  This does not happen with my USB keyboard, nor if I type 
> *very* slowly and deliberately.. and no this is not my fat fingers!!!  I've 
> played with the repeat character options for KDE etc to no avail.
> 
> Help!?!
> 
> Scott
> 
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