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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: dtor_core@ameritech.net
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stuart_hayes@dell.com
Subject: Re: Suppressing softrepeat
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 22:35:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060221213525.GA12526@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d120d5000602211315y60ad2861n4cd64535f9f4850d@mail.gmail.com>

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.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
Director SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-21 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-21 20:43 Suppressing softrepeat Pete Zaitcev
2006-02-21 21:08 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-02-21 21:32   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-02-21 21:40     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-02-21 21:57       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-02-22 20:00   ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-02-22 20:40     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-02-22 21:09       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-02-22 22:09         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2006-02-22 22:13           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-02-22 21:16       ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-02-21 21:15 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-02-21 21:35   ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-22 20:46 Stuart_Hayes

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