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17. Changing the keyboard repeat rate

At startup, the Linux kernel sets the repeat rate to its maximal value. For most keyboards this is reasonable, but for some it means that you can hardly touch a key without getting three copies of the corresponding symbol. Use the program kbdrate(8) to change the repeat rate, or, if that doesn't help, edit or remove the section 

     ! set the keyboard repeat rate to the max
         mov     ax,#0x0305
         xor     bx,bx           ! clear bx
         int     0x16
of /usr/src/linux/[arch/i386/]boot/setup.S.

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