From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 Firefox/1.0.2 Red Hat/1.0.2-1.4.1 Description of problem: The X.org server shipped with RHEL-4 seems to contain an annoying bug https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651 that breaks autorepeat. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-6.8.1-23.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fire up the X server. 2. xset r rate 300 50 3. Hold down an autorepeating key Actual Results: Characters comes out fast, then slows down. Expected Results: Characters comes out fast, and continue so ad infinity. Additional info:
The fix for this, which is attached to the bug report you've provided a URL for above, is committed to the X.Org CVS stable 6.8.x branch, and is already integrated into the 6.8.2 release which is in RHEL4 U1 update. Once RHEL4 U1 is available, if after upgrading to the new release you still encounter a problem, you may contact Red Hat Global Support Services for the problem, and they will open an engineering ticket. Setting status to "ERRATA".