I have some problems with repeating keys on my Toshiba 1405 laptop with Mandrake 8.2 installed. To fix this problem I downloaded ActiveX and ran the following from the command line...

http://rooster.stanford.edu/~ben/toshiba/keyboard.php

/usr/local/bin/ax +bouncekeys
/usr/local/bin/ax -timeout
/usr/local/bin/ax bonucedelay 10

However, I cannot get ActiveX to save and load these settings on bootup. I've tried putting these in /etc/rc.d/rc.local and in /etc/X11/xdm/XSession.

Is there anywhere else I can try and save these settings to so that they will run during bootup?

- Thanks, robeb

please search the forum before posting questions in future, it will often save you a lot of time. add your command to the end of /etc/rc.local

I'm sure you meant AccessX-not ActiveX
Did you try the other suggestions at that link,like installing the latest updates?
lynch

Oops, looks like I did mean AccessX. Let me typing hands get away from me.

Anyways, if I have the commands in /etc/rc.d/rc.local then putting them in /etc/rc.local won't help. They are linked files.

I've downloaded the lateset AccessX tarball and have tried editing the AccessX config file. I don't know why the commands aren't being run during bootup. I can run them fine from the command line. I've also tried setting the repeat and delay time with "kbdrate".

Maybe there's an issue with the installation of Mandrake 8.2 on my laptop. I've used rc.local on my Red Hat 7.2 w/out any problems.

- robeb

hmm, helps if i finish reading the question... well rc.local must be executed, otherwise your system is shafted... that's technical jargon... sorry

I prefer "hosed" myself

So I add a line to rc.local to shutdown httpd and it worked so it must be a bug with AccessX. Maybe in conjuntion with Mandrake? Anyways, I think I'm going to reinstall Red Hat 7.2 on my laptop since I'm also having problems with the APM during reboot. I've been working on these problems for too long now. Too bad, I was beginning to like Mandrake. Maybe I'll install it on my next box. Well, thanks for the help!

- robeb

I've also had a lot of trouble getting commands in rc.local to execute under Mandrake 8.2. It doesn't seem to make any difference what I put in rc.local, much of the time they don't execute. It happens that kbdrate is one of the commands that I can't get to work in rc.local

I've never had this problem with any other Linux package.

Tom

Well, I figured out how to fix the problem with loading the AccessX commands, and it has nothing to do with rc.local.

For future reference, place the commands

/usr/local/bin/ax +bouncekeys
/usr/local/bin/ax -timeout
/usr/local/bin/ax bouncedelay 10

in the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file, BEFORE the exec command to load the X11 session

exec /etc/X11/X11session $*

The commands will not load into the current session if you place them after. Again, this is for Mandrake 8.2. I don't know if this will work on any other distro.

- robeb