Re: Suppressing softrepeat

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On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:15:57PM -0500, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
 
> I see the problem but I don't think we want another module parameter
> for it. I think if you put the following somewhere into init scripts
> it shoudl work without any additional changes:
> 
>         echo -n "0" > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serioX/softrepeat

This should work, indeed, as an alternative to 'kbdrate -d 750'.

> Of couurse one would jhave to locate proper serioX but that should be easy.
> 
> I also see the following in bugzilla: "... This causs a problem on
> systems that have no real keyboard plugged in, since atkbd probes for
> the keyboard, and won't take control of the port if it doesn't see
> one." Usually it is OK for keyboard to be missing as long as BIOS
> itself does not disable keyboard port - whenever there is new data
> starts coming from the port serio core will try to find proper driver
> for it. I wonder why this is not working on boxes in question.
 
The DRAC3 doesn't respond to ANY commands, thus the atkbd probe fails.

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Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs
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