Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 108563
kbdrate gives no results and strange errors
Last modified: 2014-02-02 12:56:52 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031027 Firebird/0.7+ Description of problem: Sometimes kdbrate seems to work, but no detectable change is found in adjusting the typematic rate. Other times "Broken pipe" is the result. Other times a series of carriage returns, about 10, scroll down the page. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kbd=1.08-11 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open console 2. run 'usr/sbin/kbdrate -r 50 -d 150' 3. Actual Results: As regular user running /usr/sbin/kbdrate -r50 -d150: Cannot open /dev/port: Permission denied As regular user running /usr/bin/kbdrate -r50 -d150: Broken pipe As root running /usr/sbin/kbdrate -r50 -d150: [blank line] [blank line] [blank line] [blank line] [blank line] [blank line] [blank line] [blank line] Typematic Rate set to 30.0 cps (delay = 250 ms) [root@drums mtnhd]# [root@drums mtnhd]# [root@drums mtnhd]# [root@drums mtnhd]# [root@drums mtnhd]# [root@drums mtnhd]# [root@drums mtnhd]# [root@drums mtnhd]# [root@drums mtnhd]# Expected Results: Typematic Rate set to 50.0 cps (delay = 150 ms) Additional info: I'm using test3 Fedora plus all of Rawhide as of Oct 29.
This seems to be dependent on the hw. fwiw, I was unable to reproduce using the latest. No broken pipe error either
I'm currently seeing this bug here, on a recently manufactured motherboard exactly as the reporter stated.
When using X/Xorg: $ xset r rate delay [rate] $ xset r rate 200 30 It would appear I get the same effects with what this bug describes when I try to issue what the kbdrate command while within X/Xorg, while under a simple virtual terminal kbdrate works as expected. As such, use kbdrate under virtual terminals only and "xset r rate" when within X/Xorg.