NAME

       kbdrate - reset the keyboard repeat rate and delay time

SYNOPSIS

       kbdrate [options...]

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

       -r, --rate=NUMBER
              Change  the  keyboard  repeat  rate to NUMBER 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=NUMBER
              Change the delay to NUMBER 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.

       -s, --silent
              Silent. No messages are printed.

       -h, --help
              Display a help text.

       -V, --version
              Display a version number and exit.

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/i386 machine, the latter for SPARC.)  When these ioctls fail an
       ioport interface.

FILES

       /etc/rc.local
       /dev/port

kbd                                               22 June 1994                                        KBDRATE(8)