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NAME

       kbdrate - reset the keyboard repeat rate and delay time

SYNOPSIS

       kbdrate [ -s ] [ -r rate ] [ -d delay ]

DESCRIPTION

       kbdrate is used to change the keyboard repeat rate and delay time.  The
       delay is the amount of time that a key must be depressed before it will
       start to repeat.

       Using  kbdrate  without  any options will reset the repeat rate to 10.9
       characters per second (cps) and the delay to 250 milliseconds (ms)  for
       Intel-  and  M68K-based systems.  These are the IBM defaults. On SPARC-
       based systems it will reset the repeat rate to 5 cps and the  delay  to
       200 ms.

OPTIONS

       -s     Silent.  No messages are printed.

       -r rate
              Change  the  keyboard repeat rate to rate cps.   For Intel-based
              systems, the allowable range is from  2.0  to  30.0  cps.   Only
              certain,  specific  values  are  possible,  and the program will
              select the nearest possible value to  the  one  specified.   The
              possible values are given, in characters per second, as follows:
              2.0, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5, 2.7, 3.0, 3.3, 3.7, 4.0, 4.3, 4.6, 5.0, 5.5,
              6.0,  6.7,  7.5,  8.0,  8.6,  9.2, 10.0, 10.9, 12.0, 13.3, 15.0,
              16.0, 17.1, 18.5, 20.0, 21.8, 24.0, 26.7, 30.0.  For SPARC-based
              systems, the allowable range is from 0 (no repeat) to 50 cps.

       -d delay
              Change   the  delay  to  delay  milliseconds.   For  Intel-based
              systems, the allowable range is from 250 to 1000 ms, in  250  ms
              steps.  For SPARC systems, possible values are between 10 ms and
              1440 ms, in 10 ms steps.

BUGS

       Not all keyboards support all rates.

       Not all keyboards have the rates mapped in the same way.

       Setting the repeat rate on the Gateway AnyKey keyboard does  not  work.
       If  someone  with  a  Gateway  figures out how to program the keyboard,
       please send mail to util-linux@math.uio.no.

       All this is very architecture dependent.  Nowadays kbdrate first  tries
       the  KDKBDREP  and  KIOCSRATE  ioctls.  (The former usually works on an
       m68k machine, the latter for SPARC.)  When these ioctls fail an  ioport
       interface as on i386 is assumed.

FILES

       /dev/port