kbdrate - reset the keyboard repeat rate and delay time
SYNOPSIS
kbdrate [ -s ] [ -r rate ] [ -d delay ]
DESCRIPTION
kbdrate is used to change the keyboard repeat rate and
delay time. The delay is the amount of time that a key
must be depressed before it will start to repeat.
Using kbdrate without any options will reset the repeat
rate to 10.9 characters per second (cps) and the delay to
250 milliseconds (ms) for Intel- and M68K-based systems.
These are the IBM defaults. On SPARC-based systems it will
reset the repeat rate to 20 cps and the delay to 200 ms.
OPTIONS
-s Silent. No messages are printed.
-r rate
Change the keyboard repeat rate to rate cps. For
Intel-based systems, the allowable range is from
2.0 to 30.0 cps. Only certain, specific values are
possible, and the program will select the nearest
possible value to the one specified. The possible
values are given, in characters per second, as fol
lows: 2.0, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 3.0, 3.3, 3.7, 4.0,
4.3, 4.6, 5.0, 5.5, 6.0, 6.7, 7.5, 8.0, 8.6, 9.2,
10.0, 10.9, 12.0, 13.3, 15.0, 16.0, 17.1, 18.5,
20.0, 21.8, 24.0, 26.7, 30.0. For SPARC-based sys
tems, the allowable range is from 0 (no repeat) to
50 cps.
-d delay
Change the delay to delay milliseconds. For Intel-
based systems, the allowable range is from 250 to
1000 ms, in 250 ms steps. For SPARC systems, possi
ble values are between 10 ms and 1440 ms, in 10 ms
steps.
-V Display a version number and exit.
BUGS
Not all keyboards support all rates.
Not all keyboards have the rates mapped in the same way.
Setting the repeat rate on the Gateway AnyKey keyboard
does not work. If someone with a Gateway figures out how
to program the keyboard, please send mail to util-
linux@math.uio.no.
first tries the KDKBDREP and KIOCSRATE ioctls. (The for
mer usually works on an m68k machine, the latter for
SPARC.) When these ioctls fail an ioport interface as on
i386 is assumed.
FILES
/etc/rc.local
/dev/port
/dev/kbd
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