Hmmm, I have investigated some more.  It seem my X server at least
is perfectly cabable of auto repeating on it's on even when connected
to a wskbd event source.

I'll make my event auto repeat a compile time option.  I don't think
it's needed normally.

	-- Lennart

David Young wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 11:18:21PM +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
> 
>>Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 15:21:25 +0200, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I've changed the auto repeat logic in wskbd slightly.
>>>>Previously auto repeat was only avaliable in translated
>>>>mode, but not in event mode.  Now it's available in both.
>>>>
>>>>I don't think this should affect anyone, except those few
>>>>who use event mode (i.e., opening /dev/wskbd*).
>>>>
>>>>You can also turn off auto repeat now, by
>>>>	wsconsctl -w repeat.del1=0
>>>
>>>
>>>I'm just curious - why do we need it in event mode?  
>>>
>>>And, arguably, when the key *remains* pressed, logically no *events*
>>>(presses / releases) really happen :).
>>>
>>
>>Because the only people using event mode are those that use
>>/dev/wskbd in X, and they want autorepeat too.  And the X server
>>does not emulate that, it relies on lower levels to do that.
> 
> 
> I didn't know that.  I thought that the line "AutoRepeat 500 5" in my
> XF86Config controlled autorepeat?
> 
> Dave
>