Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Mar 1998 15:56:40 -0500 | From | Scott McDermott <> | Subject | Re: keyboard repeat rate, increase ceiling? |
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Pavel Machek <pavel@elf.ucw.cz> on Tue, Mar 24, 1998 at 09:45:25PM +0100: > > 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... > [...] > PS: I believe that on sparc's we already do autorepeat in SW.
Can someone confirm this?
Sure would be nice to have it on the intel boxes. Unfortunately, knowing only basic C, I can't be of much help.
-- Scott
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