Ben Harris wrote:
> In article <4201C0B7.88E8C1D0@bom.gov.au> you write:
> 
>>3. When i log into the xdm prompt/ banner the typing
>>on the keyboard makes beeping noises?
>>
>>How can I turn this off please?
> 
> 
> Apply the patch at
> <http://cvsweb.no.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/sun/
>  kbd.c.diff?r1=1.40&r2=1.41>
> (only the third hunk is useful) then rebuild your kernel.
> 
> I hope this fix will be in NetBSD 2.1.
> 
> 
>>4. Repeat key doesn't work. ie if you hold down a key
>>it doesn't repeat. So I have to tap the key repeatedly.
>>
>>Is this an stty thing? What should i set and where?
> 
> 
> For some reason, setting the delay to any value other than 660 works, so run
> "xset r rate 661 25".  Alternatively, you can add a -ar1 option in
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers.  Mine says:
> 
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/XsunMono  -nolisten tcp -ar1 500

This is probably caused by -DXKB_ALWAYS_USES_SOFT_REPEAT missing from 
the X server build CPPFLAGS.

> No-one seems to know why this is happening, but I've submitted a PR:
> <http://www.NetBSD.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=28908>

Strange... This problems comes and go almost since Matthew Green did the 
first patches to X11R6 to support NetBSD/sparc.
-- 
					Matthieu