You wrote (in your message from Tuesday 20)
 > On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Curt Sampson wrote:
 > 
 > > > 	xdm:
 > > > 	    The X server needs -kb on the end of the Xservers line for
 > > > 	    autorepeat to work. Presumably xinit needs a similar
 > > > 	    workaround. 
 > > 
 > > Ah, so this is where my key repeat went! Do you have any further
 > > information on this? Like what the XKEYBOARD extension does, and
 > > why key repeat is broken with it present? (I'm not terribly clueful
 > > about X, sorry.)
 > > 
 > 	I'm totally in the dark as to what is going on. Maybe we should
 > 	just set xsrc to disable XKEYBOARD for 1.4?
 > 

To fix this,  add :

#define XkbServerDefines  -DXKB_ALWAYS_USES_SOFT_REPEAT

in the #if defined(SparcArchitecture) and #if defined(Sun3Architecture) 
sections of NetBSD.cf.


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					Matthieu