The machine is a Dell Latitude CPi 266XT, Neomagic graphics chipset. In RH7 with XFree86-SVGA, I find that whenever I resume the machine from apm suspend, the key repeat rate has been changed to something extremely slow. I normally use xset r rate 250 25. An "xset r rate 250 25" after suspend does not work, since xset believes that this rate is current. Instead I have to issue TWO xset commands: "xset r rate 5 5; xset r rate 250 25" to force the change. This was not a problem in previous RH releases. Before RH7, I used the XFree86 libraries but the commercial Accelerated-X server (since Neomagic wasn't supported by XFree86 until recently). However, "xset r rate .. .." doesn't work with this server and the RH7 XFree86 libraries (something about some XFree-Misc missing). This is so annoying I'm considering downgrading to the RH6.2 XFree libraries and reinstalling the Accellerated-X server.
Same problem on a dell inspiron 7000. I think it's Dell specific. I simply use "kdbrate -r 24 -d 250" instead and all works fine (both x and consoles).
To the original poster: Can you provide me the _exact_ error you get? Also, what does "rpm -qa |sort|grep '^X'" report?
Since upgrading to RH7.1 my Dell laptop no longer has a problem with bogus key repeat rate after resume.
Ok, marking fixed in current.