Subject: Re: apm sus/resume mucks up kbdrate?
From: David Efflandt (efflandt@xnet.com)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 13:55:15 GMT+1
On Sat, 09 Dec 2000 17:56:50 +0000, LinuxTest <nw40@dial.pipex.com> wrote:
>
>
>When booted from cold the keyboard repeat rate of my machine is
>acceptable. A bit disappointing that for Intel based PCs the delay
>between repeats can't be less than 250 ms. but at a repeat rate of 30.0
>cps it's fairly fast.
>
>After doing an apm suspend, by either closing the laptop screen or
>typing 'apm -s', and then a resume, the keyboard
>repeat rate becomes ridiculously slow, probably less than 10 cps. Why is
>this? I have a work around which is to reset the repeat rate after a
>resume with:
>
>kbdrate -r 30
>
>and I am figuring out how to get the apm daemon to invoke this
>automatically, but is there any way to prevent this happening. Is this a
>known problem which has been sorted out in newer versions of the kernel
>or apm driver?
See if you have /etc/sysconfig/apmd script and related apm-scripts dir.
You can also set a variable there to restart pcmcia on resume, which
solves the problem of my box locking up on resume if I didn't eject the
card first.
>My distribution is RH6.0 Intel, which is a 2.2.5-15 kernel.
>
>My apm version is 3.0beta4.
>
>My machine is a Dell Inspiron 7500
>
>Thanks.
>
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