Subject: Re: xsrc/28908: Auto-repeat in Xsun doesn't work by default
To: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/10/2005 18:32:49
[ On Saturday, January 8, 2005 at 18:00:00 (+0000), Ben Harris wrote: ]
> Subject: xsrc/28908: Auto-repeat in Xsun doesn't work by default
>
> By default, in Xsun (and XsunMono, which is what I'm actually using), Sun 
> keyboards don't auto-repeat.  This problem for some reason only manifests 
> when using the default settings of 660ms delay and 25 ms period.  Changing 
> either of these (either using xset or the -ar1 and -ar2 options to Xsun) 
> causes auto-repeat to work.  Putting them back to the default settings 
> causes it to stop working again.

When did this first start happening for you?

It's never been a problem on my older 1.6.1 systems, e.g. this SS20 with
bwtwo framebuffer and "standard" type-4 keyboard that I use full time:

18:26 [10] $ uname -a
NetBSD very 1.6.1_STABLE NetBSD 1.6.1_STABLE (VERY) #16: Tue Oct  7 22:41:46 EDT 2003     woods@proven:/home/proven/woods/NetBSD-1.6.x-i386-sparc-obj/work/woods/m-NetBSD-1.6/sys/arch/sparc/compile/VERY sparc

18:26 [10] $ tail -1 /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers 
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/XsunMono :0 -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/intlfonts/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/intlfonts/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Mozilla/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/

18:27 [11] $ xset q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00000000
  auto repeating keys:  00ffeffbfeffffff
                        fffff6fffff8df3f
                        1d00000000000000
                        0000000000000000
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  10/1    threshold:  5
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  600    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x21    BlackPixel:  1    WhitePixel:  0
Font Path:
  /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/intlfonts/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/intlfonts/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Mozilla/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/
Bug Mode: compatibility mode is disabled


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