Bug 475747

Same problem, installed F10 from live CD, all updates as of Dec 20 are installed.

Using Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard I can turn off the repeat but adjusting the delay has no effect at all. The default delay seems rather short and is driving me nuts.

Seems to be related to the new evdev driver being used instead of the old kbd driver (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EvdevInputDriver)

Found some more info and workarounds at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-input-evdev/+bug/264196

I appended one line to /etc/rc.local
/usr/bin/kbdrate -r 25 -d 500

I'm having problems with this as well, but I'm seeing slightly different behavior.

Specifically, the repeat rate I want (30 cps) is in effect for the first second or so, but then the repeat rate *changes* to a slower rate (maybe 15 cps or so). Furthermore, I don't see the problem all the time. I haven't quite pinned down what causes the rate-shift behavior to occur (although I suspect executing ACPI suspend/resumes is involved).

Using kbdrate as per comment 2 gets rid of the two-phase repeat rate effect whenever it crops up.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Using Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard I can turn off the repeat but
> adjusting the delay has no effect at all. The default delay seems rather short
> and is driving me nuts.

I agree, I have the speed slider set all the way to "slow" and the delay slider set all the way to "long" and nothing seems to change.. It's so fast I am going to break my backspace key with all the unwanted repeats I keep having to delete!

Thanks for the bug report.  We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue.

Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available) and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below.

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Thanks in advance.

Created attachment 328336 [details]
xorg config file

Created attachment 328337 [details]
xorg log file

Felipe, do we have some your current /var/log/Xorg.0.log, please?

Matej: I'm attaching mine, but I don't see the point since Matthieu already did that.

Created attachment 329277 [details]
Xorg log.

(In reply to comment #9)
> Matej: I'm attaching mine, but I don't see the point since Matthieu already did
> that.

Thanks a lot -- well, I prefer to have one guy (preferably reporter) whom I can torture to get information/testing from him ;-).

*** Bug 486944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

To bring over my bug 486944 info here.  This behaviour exists with both evdev and the old kbd driver.  See my bug for further details, as it's a bit different.  I want to be able to go ABOVE 30cps, to 50 or 60cps.

From my tests, you can always set the delay and rate using xset from the command line, up to 30cps using:  xset r rate 200 30

It just won't let you go above.  The old OS's, like F8 and F5, let you go to arbitrary speeds, and it worked.

So far the only solution which worked for me was to add

Option "AutoAddDevices" "off"

to the ServerFlags in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

This disables the EVDEV driver from Xorg and the "old" KBD driver takes over, this way the keyboard repeat rate works again for me.

Can you confirm that it lets you go over 30cps and still works properly?  That's great news, thanks for the tip.  I'll be coming back to the world of sanity now.

I confirm this workaround works. Ohh, relief.

Yes, #14 works ok.  However, I just figured out why sometimes things seem to change for no reason.  I use the pageup/down keys a lot and sometimes accidentally hit numlock.  Today I must have hit it for the first time, as after I hit it my repeat rate changed and the mouse rate changed too (I think).  My kb rate is usually around 200/50.  After numlock it went to what felt like 100/80!  So I run xset to change it back and now it feels like it won't go higher than 45 or so.  And it just feels different, like all of a sudden some resolution changed in both the kb and mouse.  Very weird.

Anyhow, I can trigger the switch to 100/80 by hitting numlock.  I'm pretty sure this happened before I implemented #14 also, though I didn't spot the cause then.

I'm now using the kbd driver and the #14 workaround option.  My kbd rate is usually 200/50 and my mouse "xset m 13/8 0".

This never happened in F8 as I must have accidentally hit numlock 10000 times in F8 without this ever showing up.

I'm using F11 live CD and I can't reproduce the problem.

Thanks, closing per last comments.