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Old 06-28-2006, 12:26 AM   #1
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Keyboard problem


I just setup slackware 10.2 on my laptop. The problem I have is that I have to keep tapping the down arrow in order to move the cursor down. Is this a known bug or is their a script that I missed and could rerun. Like Vi in order to move many lines down I have to keep tapping down.

Thanks for the help.

Just found that the backspace is doing the same thing.

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Old 06-28-2006, 02:08 AM   #2
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Hello.

It sounds like, for whatever reason, the keyboard repeat isn't set up properly. If you are in X (KDE, Gnome, etc.), there will probably be a keyboard config utility that will help you fix that for your X sessions. On the command line, try this (as root):

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# kbdrate -r 26.7 -d 660
See "man kbdrate" for more info on what that does. If this doesn't work, you may need to download and install the kbd package. (I'm using Gentoo at the moment; I don't know what it's called in Slackware.)

Hope that helps.

--Dane
 
Old 06-28-2006, 11:58 AM   #3
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I will have to give that a try tonight.
 
Old 06-28-2006, 12:11 PM   #4
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Don't forget you can use Ctl-F (page forward) and Ctl-B (page back).

(Yes, I'm an old-school VI user. :P )
 
Old 06-28-2006, 12:19 PM   #5
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Hey there is nothing wrong with being old school. if it was up to me I would still have my work people on a terminal and all they would have are the choices that we give them. 1 does this , 2 does that, and so on and so on.
 
Old 06-29-2006, 11:08 AM   #6
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I still have problems. Is their a command I can run to reconfigure my keyboard?
 
Old 06-29-2006, 08:44 PM   #7
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I got my problem solved. I just reran xorgconfig.
 
Old 06-30-2006, 05:18 AM   #8
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I'm glad you got it working!

Do you have any idea what it changed from the old version of xorg.conf? You could probably run a diff of the two files; I'm sure that any information you can provide will be helpful to other people with the same problem.

Have a good one.

--Dane
 
Old 06-30-2006, 10:29 PM   #9
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To be honest I can't figure out what happened. I did not save the old config file but I wish I had. That way I could just edit that part instead of going through the whole config again.
 
  


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